She Wants To Break A Tree Poem by Richard G Berg

She is a morning girl
Grappling with breakfast
Fruit, tea and the rind
Of broken sleep

She wants to break a tree
She sits at a kitchen table
Breaking into God's head

Disturbing saucer and cup
Outside, beyond a window pane
Busy trees sway, unaware
She wants to break one

She breaks an egg-shell
Hard boiled, resisting first
Crack, then breaking beneath
Her continued tapping

She breaks a plate
Her promises to a cat
Her bracelet rings glasses

She breaks a clock's stare
She wants to break a tree


Richard G Berg
September 2021