tree

rising from simple base
to angeled tip (not angled)
covered in coloured mini stars
randomed with
wooden stars
-------paper scrolls
----------------knitted mailboxes
-------------------------crystal figures
---------------------------------fragile balls of colour
27 years of collecting
why?

because…
------- because…
-----------------because…
well…

can you see
it busts through the ceiling, the window, the eyes
and exists all
alone
in all its prickly greenness
as a
----------force of fierce beauty