I think the strongest image is of Matty as a tree, the resonances and the universal paths: when she walks into the forest she IS a treelike member of that forest. And "the trees reach out to meet you", indeed. I hope she is barefoot.
Also like the image of the nation as a puzzle made of (tree) wood, reaching out to meet her as she travels. To meet other beds, other people, other trees. And a lover to open her like a cathedral of tree branches, glowing and protective.
'Hot kid from a cold state' but when she enters the forest, temperatures and time seem disappeared in the wisdom and light of the trees, which have been there a long long time. Longer than any of us.
I think the strongest image is of Matty as a tree, the resonances and the universal paths: when she walks into the forest she IS a treelike member of that forest. And "the trees reach out to meet you", indeed. I hope she is barefoot.
Also like the image of the nation as a puzzle made of (tree) wood, reaching out to meet her as she travels. To meet other beds, other people, other trees. And a lover to open her like a cathedral of tree branches, glowing and protective.
'Hot kid from a cold state' but when she enters the forest, temperatures and time seem disappeared in the wisdom and light of the trees, which have been there a long long time. Longer than any of us.