The Magic Forest

Guess what! You don't really need a
tornado in Kansas to knock you into an
amazingly glowing green world, just await
a rainy day and enter a forest where the
summer canopy of the trees crowding the
woods provide shelter from the rain even
while on entering the way ahead appears
dark and uninviting. Muster your courage
and forge on and as the trees surround you
there it is, a translucently-lit interior that
mysterious transformation where the dim
rainy world outside is left behind and you
are within a green cathedral of growth
luminous with verdant shades where ripe
wild apples and blackberries shimmer
and on the forest floor gems vibrate in
bright hues with intriguing names like
jewelweed, fleabane, yarrow, pilotweed
Queen Anne's lace, and more, so many
others whose shadings and forms the rain
has brightened beyond belief, where tiny
goldfinches swoop through the branches
alongside nuthatches and chickadees softly
calling and you are there, in that most
arcane of all possible worlds of magic.