The Watchful Woods
By the lake, the woods turn darker. Older. The stones there feel like they carry memory. These trees are watchful. I like to go there sometimes, and watch right back.
Rostellan Woods, East Cork
Associated plant: Ivy
Not far from here, just down the road along the People’s Path, is Rostellan Woods.
We’ve walked it for years, watched the paths shift, the trees grow, fall, or be harvested. Children growing beside them. Dogs drifting through the seasons of our lives.
By the lake, the woods turn darker. Older.
The stones there feel like they carry memory.
These trees are watchful.
I like to go there sometimes, and watch right back.
Taken in the lower woods, beside the lake, watched by the stones.
