Ode to a Juniper Tree

Ode to a Juniper Tree

You.Luscious.Beast.
Meet me at the top
Of a stark desert landscape
And I will worship your thirsty bark

We can scream at the clouds
“Come! Come!”
Cool me with your puffy petals
And your Blue.Gray.Wall.
Of rumbling disgruntledness.

Terrorize me with your fierce
bolts of lightning
And I will scream back
into the whipping wind
You.Don’t.Scare me.