Neck an unfurling fern
Blooming from the dirt
Already larger than a golden retriever
Soon larger than a car
Larger than anything
that will ever roam land
Just try to eat me
These trunks that churn loam
Forest feller
Meadow maker
You cannot fathom my girthÂ
O, but these lungs are tired
This behemoth drum
This sweeping neck
A titanic burden
Balanced by a tendril tail that whips in the wind
Steel not
This suspension bridge needs
The bristles and cones of bygone trees
Fuel the greatest engine that ever breathed
For twenty million years and more
And you, monkey?
Just six million
And probably not one more
Even now, my remains stun the world
America has not forgotten my tour
An acre per a step for a lifetime as long as yours
And I am not forgotten
My hulking form
Makes your children
Awed
Weep