Canopy | Sylvia Kniss

Árbol 

by: Alex Vidal Pérez

(read from bottom to top)

Table

Produced 

For your hundredth mass

I don’t want to hear how you need to use me

One in this game of pull and push, keep the details to yourself

Break my spirit but don’t think you’ve broken it all and let us become

Ways

Your human

Barbarity of

Selfishness or the

Knowing the truth of your 

Break my spirit but never conceal it form

Has provided you

That this holy soil

The gifts

Damaging

Yours when

You inevitably break

Break my spirit in the way

As it sits in the nooks of your ax

Break my spirit the way you break into my bark and steal my essence 

Alex Vidal Pérez is a senior Creative Writing major with minors in Publishing & Editing and Spanish Studies. On campus, he serves as the Social Media chair for SU Slam Poetry Club, and the Treasurer for ALAS, among other things. They enjoy writing about world issues, the mundane, reading about magical realism and anything by Gabriel García Márquez.