Jonathan Seiling 
The Refuge of Trees [EPUB ebook] 
loose poetics

1.1 O, Spirit of Roots and Branches 9

1.2 Pining for Peace on this Land 10

1.3 Redefining a Wild Man 13

1.4 Vitamin N.N. 15

1.5 The Ballad of Old Man Fraser 18

1.6 Northern Winter 21

1.7 Norm’s Song 23

1.8 Lone Pine Lullaby 24

1.9 Branches will Salve the Wound 25

1.10 Transplanted and Twain 26

1.11 Please Please Please, Stop 28

1.12 We Recline and Mock Sorrow 30

1.13 Face in the Mirror 32

1.14 Tomorrow’s Family Tree: 2B 34

1.15 If You’re Lost, Find a Forest 36

1.16 Post-Vestigiana 39

1.17 Hike Ooze 40

1.18 The Adventage 41

2.1 Like a Virus 45

2.2 Wisdom Tree of Life 47

2.3 Vestigibus Omnibus 48

2.4 Losing the Co-creating Spark 49

2.5 Political Roots 50

2.6 War on Humans or Trees? 51

2.7 Potatoes and Peanuts 53

2.8 the refuge of trees: twelve fruits 55

2.9 Sauvages Noblesses 64

2.10 Signpost – Grow Free 66

2.11 Get 68

2.12 Asherah beside the Altar 69

2.13 Pining for Refuge in Rome 71

2.14 137 Reloaded 76

2.15 Buddha’s Beau Bo 79

2.16 The Tao of Trees: an aerobic script 80

a knowledge meant 81

long afterward 83

Jonathan Seiling has a Ph D from the University of Toronto (2008) in the history of radical western religious thought, with a dissertation on Russian Sophiology, which examined aspects of ecotheology and theological naturalism. He has worked in a variety of nature-connection program settings, including forest bathing, nature program direction, tree-planting and is currently completing a certification with Child and Nature Alliance Canada (CNAC), to begin directing a forest school.