Poetry written during the years before the author’s stroke in 2012. Tree Story and Other Poems challenges us to see through a different lens, one that clarifies and sharpens the natural world, and that places humans as supporting actors in the grand drama nature gives us. It beautifully traces the centuries-old life of a Douglas Fir, the tree itself narrating an epic journey with the action occurring at the tree’s roots and around its trunk. Subsequent poems limn the theme established by Tree Story that is, we are called to celebrate life, even amidst the entropy and decay of a seemingly indiscriminate nature.