Trees of Light, by Sudeep Adhikari

Tree of Life, by Carl Jung (Switzerland), between 1915-1930.

​Trees of Light 

A porous tunnel of trees 
makes the light lighter than the butterflies. 

It seeps to reach me, 
with all my shadows getting high 
on dopamine  and doom on a weekday. 

You can't stop a tree from dancing.  
a viscous life
fixated to rhizome, screens the 
sun, and kisses infinite over-world
to make rains for my sex-starved deserts. 

I smell death. I see deathless. 
I hear trees talking about the Buddhas
we all were once. 

Sudeep Adhikari

Sudeep Adhikari is a structural engineer/Lecturer  from Kathmandu, Nepal. His recent publications were with  Beatnik Cowboys, Zombie Logic Review, The Bees Are Dead, Silver Birch Press and Eunoia Review.