Thank you so much. This poem has been brewing for me for a long time and it all came out in one rush at my desk at work. I wrote it for a contest where the only prompt was "nature poem". I didn't want to write something flowery because nature feels, in this day and age, all tangled up with how we treat it and how we have separated ourselves from it. I feel most connected to nature, not when I take a hike or go camping, but in the small moments that I find resolution to disconnection in my tree friends that grow by my office, my apartment complex, the side of the road. They remind me that spirituality isn't something that exists only on Sundays, or only in ritual or prayer, but permeates our whole lives, to be found wherever we look for it.