“undercurrents (feat. Mia Pixley)”
Artist: Sami Freeman

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Location: Prime Desert Woodland Preserve, Lancaster, California

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 Elevation: 714 meters

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Tree Name: Victoria

Tall, leggy, an upright member of my community (though a little shaggy). They say I’m about a century old, though time is not so linear in this way for us. We measure blooms, rains, a winter freeze—
The freeze come less frequently now…
perhaps time is slowing then? You see, I bloom now, less frequently too.

What does it mean to look for love, like this in such a time of change?
Perhaps it looks like hope?
I don’t know..

But I digress… about me: In a case of convergent evolution, I am often mistaken for a tree— but we don’t measure time in rings here. How is it I can remember your touch, my being younger than your own extinction?
I came from a rhizomatic network of growth, before that a seed.
Its seeds I think of most these days… Of ways of moving. Of change. Of heat, of fire.
Of you.
Though your claws where a kind of treachery, I miss their slick sharpness and the pull. Nothing like that has come around in all these years, though the clipping shears do their work too… but these methodologies, these ways of being – work out of efficiency, not hunger…
I remember you hungry.
And here I am, hungry now too… I
haven’t seen you here in the desert, for a very long time. (If you can measure time that way). With these same methodologies of efficiency, I’m told you can be found here, on the internet. I see its true… your image drawn again and again and multiplied with every search. So, I’m reaching out.
To you, or one of you.
Well, you can find me here… Or, perhaps, North of here as things change.
I hope…

I hope,
Yours,
The one who branches like a V. (But you can just call me Victoria)

Featured writer Alicia Escott