Poem: “In a Country Once Forested”

The young woodland remembers
the old, a dreamer dreaming

of an old holy book,
an old set of instructions,

and the soil under the grass
is dreaming of a young forest,

and under the pavement the soil
is dreaming of grass.

“In A Country Once Forested” by Wendell Berry. Copyright © 2005 by Wendell Berry from Given. Reprinted by permission of Shoemaker & Hoard Publishers.