UNA FOTO / UN DIA: POEM ABOUT A TREE

photo caption: Nature morte, (L) Jeff Koons, (R) J. Galligan and Peter Hall


No one has ever successfully
painted or photographed

a redwood tree.

The feeling they produce is not transferable.
From them comes
silence and awe.

It's not only their unbelievable stature,
nor the color which
seems to shift
and vary

under your eyes, no,
they are not like any trees
we know,

they are ambassadors
from another time.

TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY
John Steinbeck

[excerpt] pg 143

Really? No painting? No photograph? Ever?

J.Galligan
75GRAND/SUR
Santa Olaya, PR