Copse Oak
- Crone
- 19 hours ago
- 1 min read
The Copse Oak remains hale and hearty. I think of the trees on boundaries, on hedges, as guardians - like the Guardian Oak and the Mother Oak, yes, and the King Oak and the Wayfarer. The Goddess Oak too may have been a hedgerow tree.
These trees are keeping the destruction at bay. Holding the line.
Caught in the bark, I saw a tiny acorn, which I took for my bundle of wonders.
And as i sat there I had a revelation, thanks to the tree, about the Hollow Places: the Hollow Places are not empty. Look into them to find what you need.
And what can you find in a hollow place? Well, there's space and darkness. There's what has been blown in; or carried in and forgotten. There's decomposition. And there are the remnants of wood: the hardest deep-within parts that have not rotted.
I'm glad the Copse Oak is well and doing its sentry job. I like how you went from the macro then the micro view (tiny acorn). Hollo places seem to be about the possibility of finding something interesting, if one is curious enough to look 🤎