Off to a conference today! I hope to make it back to O.C. in time to hear my friend Carol Plum-Ucci speak at the library in town at 5 P.M. Fingers-crossed for no traffic.
[Here is something of a poem-something. I wanted the structure to feel like a root system somehow. Maybe I should take out the stanza breaks?]
Two trees
sharing
the same
root system
Taken up
root in
the house
drain
Loving
the trees
together
but also
This house
where I
have lived
alone for
so long.
The trees
hold tight
and strangle
each other.
Birds in
those trees,
singing.
rarlington 
I love the stanza breaks!
And I feel just the opposite. It’s more of a tangle without the stanza breaks. I would remove the stanza breaks and stagger their placement to simulate stanza breaks. Pardon the space this took.
Two trees
sharing
the same
root system
taken up
root in
the house
drain
Loving
the trees
together
but also
This house
where I
have lived
alone for
So long.
The trees
hold tight
and strangle
each other.
Birds in
those trees
singing.
I’m sorry about that. I had typed the poem spacing the stanzas the way I suggested, but they all moved to the left when I posted. Argh.