COUNTING TREES, drawings and a poem

Four Trees - upon a solitary Acre

(poem 742)

by Emily Dickinson

Four Trees - upon a solitary Acre

Without Design

Or Order, or Apparent Action - 

Maintain -

The Sun - upon a Morning meets them - 

The Wind -

No nearer Neighbor - have they - 

but God -

The Acre gives them - Place - 

They - Him - Attention of Passer by - 

Of Shadow, or of Squirrel, haply - 

Or Boy - 

What Deed is Theirs unto the General Nature - 

What Plan

They severally - retard - or further - 

Unknown -