trees logged off on
mountain slopes
ravaged to rock —

did this, wrecked this
quick — just one century

like magic
turned trees into spoons and
bowls and houses and
chopsticks and red cedar
fences and picnic tables and fire-
wood and —

paper for books

Martha Jackson Kaplan, a Pushcart nominee poet and flash fiction writer, has published in various journals and anthologies. She's twice won Poet’s Choice in WFOP's Triad Contest. She has recent work at Unlikely Stories Mark V, OPE!, and Bending Genres Journal. More about her at http://marthakaplanpoet.com/