I thought your poem was great Jenna. I could really relate to it, as where I live here there are such old trees by the rivers. I was always not as brave as the others when I was a boy though - as far as using rope swings.

I do like it when poets explain the process by which they come to write a poem. I do it a bit - especially in my earlier Substack post.

As far as Shakespeare goes you reminded me of a time when a friend sent me Sonnet 14. It starts

“Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;

And yet methinks I have Astronomy,”

I actually wrote a response to that poem. My poem is called Astronomy makes Perfect Sense.