Tree 1: source material

So my plan for NaPlWrimo is to post source material that serves as inspiration for each particular day. Here's today's photo with accompanying quotes, etc. The play I'm writing is about a woman who turns into a tree.

A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life, unique in the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail. - Hermann Hesse, On Trees

I am looking at trees
they may be one of the things that I will miss
most from the earth
though many of the ones I have seen
already I cannot remember
and though I seldom embrace the ones I see
and have never been able to speak
with one
I listen to them tenderly
their names have never touched them
they have stood round my sleep
and when it was forbidden to climb them
they have carried me in their branches
- W.S. Merwin, Trees
Round as a sun is the golden tree.
Its honey sun sifts down among the light
to cover me and my hot blood
and my heart hiding like a sad bird
among its birds and shadows.
Lock your branches around me, tree;
let the harsh wooden scales of bark enclose me.
Take me into your life and smother me with bloom
till my feet are cool in the earth
and my hair is long in the wind;
till I am a golden tree spinning the sunlight.
Strong as the sun is the golden tree
that gives and says nothing,
that takes and knows nothing;
but I am stronger than the sun; I am a child.
The tree I am lying beneath is the tree of my heart,
and my heart moves like a dark bird
among its birds and shadows. - Judith Wright, Child and the Wattle-Tree