Beneath Coupled Boughs by Callum Featherstone

Alari Tammsalu

Beneath Coupled Boughs

Your sunups arise within us

bringing dayspring—

from our quickbeam and ivory tusks

we smile like rust

beneath coupled boughs 

dripping dawned hours

I wish for 

just one more sunrise 

with you

as moonlight set within your arboreal eyes

in the mourning, daybreak had taken—

you

pink, red, orange

aurora surrounds blue

my early glimpse of

your dayspring laugh

with gapped front teeth

and your Thorneywood 

arboretum's path—

same cranny

as the rift between our two Rowan trees

come sundown twilit 

those two Rowan trees

stood still—

fell to their knees

their drooping branches dropped—

berries, leaves

pink, red, orange

sown into honeydew

overcome by your loss—

feeling your last hush of treen

they, too, wish for

just one more sunrise 

with you

dripping dawned hours 

beneath coupled boughs

we smile like rust

our quickbeam and ivory tusks

bring dayspring—

as your sunups arise within us.

Notes

Treen — Small wooden objects, especially those made from hardwood. 

© Callum Featherstone

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Callum Featherstone

Callum Featherstone is a poet from Nottingham, England, whose work explores ecology, grief, memory, and place. His poetry examines the relationship between landscape and emotion, often focusing on nature as a site of loss, healing, and remembrance.

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