Branches

<p>Like our own capillaries<br /><br>tiny branches reach into the vacant space around them.<br /><br>Light – air – water – even snow<br /><br>sustain them.<br /><br>Their movements unobserved<br /><br>they inch surreptitious into the air</p><p>curve toward the window<br /><br>stare in at us<br /><br>as if to say<br /><br>“How sadly self-contained you are.”</p><p> </p>