Sabbath Sanctuary

I found a long trunk and sat on it.  I watched the water rush by.  I watched an ant struggle through my embedded shoe print with a leaf.  I peeled my skin and watched the flakes float away.

I saw green.  And more green.  I saw the moss and the ferns.  I saw the great trunks and the great roots.  The fallen.  I saw sunlight and I saw decay.  And no one saw me.

I saw every size of trunk and every color, too.  I saw trees leaning over the water, and others leaning on each other.  I saw the new trees, and the very old, old giants.

I saw a slug.  With a... round, white gill?

I walked through Greenlees Grove.  I thought for the longest time that it was Greenless Grove and I was amused by the clever irony of its namer.  Later, the truth wasn't so amusing.  But it was a lovely grove.

Then I went home.