Trees make people with depression feel more secure

"It's a planting that has quite organic and quite natural form. And the idea behind that is rather than geometry and straight lines - you don't want people to feel forced through the garden, they need to feel compelled to move into it and meander round it at their own pace, and feel at complete ease when they move through the garden.” --Matt Keightley, garden designer of RHS Feel Good Garden

available at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/22/wild-untidy-gardens-better-mental-health-designer-claims-chelsea/

below ground level

bark eventually    dissolves

            into its base chemicals     purging fluid

discolored wildflowers

            amongst generic tombstones

of energies trapped

    then released again into the wider

univers e

--poem by Astra Papachristodoulou, full poem entitled “below ground level” at

https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/the-august-challenges-1-edgelands/