Charles' tree

I'm the lucky caretaker of a friend's garden while she's away. This is the sight that met me today when I stopped by to put food out for the birds. We've named this walnut tree Charles' tree. Her late husband Charles was very fond of it. You can see why.

It made me think of this poem by one of my favourite poets, e.e. cummings



i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
not fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)