foxglove a tree is not stupid
it grows where it grows
we talk inside these branches
know nothing like the sun
the sun is a hammock
it devours us and is gone
where there is love
there is a tree and a tree
knows everything it is
already home
let’s move to the country
a country neither of us
are from
Marc Paltrineri’s poems can be found in places such as The Laurel Review, Sixth Finch, H_NGM_N, Inter/rupture, PANK, and The Green Mountains Review. Foxglove, his first chapbook, is forthcoming from Strange Cage in 2013. He is a founding editor of the hand-bound poetry journal Sun’s Skeleton and a graduate of the University of New Hampshire. He lives nearby.