Etta Blum: "I Am the Tree"

I am the tree ascending.
At the topmost branch
I’ve become the bird,
starting from tip to
climb into above.
                            After-
ward, cloud.
                    Why not?
My purposes are clear.

"I Am the Tree" by Etta Blum. Text as published in The Space My Body Fills: Poems (Exposition Press, 1975).

Art credit: Untitled photograph by PalmerLakeGuy.