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Wooden Bicycle

I have a wooden bicycle

Made from strong red oak.

The texture is coarse

With straight grain and a few

Knots like dark oases rising

In a reddish tan desert.

 

The chain is fabricated

From spruce - the same wood

Used for crafting vintage violins.

As I swerve around corners

It whirrs with a clear tone

Equal to the finest Stradivari.

 

My handlebar horn of whittled

Ponderosa pine emits shrill

Warning calls of frightened

Woodland birds, and the tires,

Shaped from black willow trunk,

Leave resin tracks like clues

In a mystery novel.

 

It’s dependable and solid

For transporting goods 

Home from the market,

But when I cycle

Through its sylvan home,

Sap begins to run through its veins

And twigs emerge

From the dogwood pedals.

And when I stop to rest

It instantly shoots sinuous roots

Deep into the forest floor.   

 

Dennis Trujillo