PJ Swift

Two Leafy Trees

They were two large leafy trees growing next to each other in the mixed tree forest. A few  of their large branches reached over each other, sometimes creating the illusion that they were part of one giant tree.  The true illusion was more substantial, however.  The large tree limbs that branched out to each other, were not actually tree branches at all, but rather, enormous human-like hands, hidden within the trees.  At times the trees would use their human-like hands to reach out or to touch one another.  Sometimes they would shake hands or even hold hands.  In more intimate moments, perhaps when the breeze caused their leaves to flutter, granting them a little privacy and shelter within the serene yet heavily vegetated forest, they would use their human-like hands to caress one another to the light rhythms of their swaying crowns.  What they would never do with their giant hands however, would be to slap or to hit or to poke or to punch each other.  Such violent acts never even occurred to either of them, because they were trees.