I Found You in the Forest

Walk into the forest a little farther than is comfortable. Close your eyes. Dig your toes into the damp moss; inhale the scent of the resinous pines. If you listen closely, through the chatter of turtledove and blackbird, you might hear the beat of an axe against wood. Listen closer still, and you may guess at the murmur of the pines, as they speak gently to their two-legged sister across the glade. And if you keep standing there, your feet sinking into the rich soil, ants crawling up your ...