1. The poet describes a tree seen from the second floor window, with branches forming washing lines and reaching towards the sky. The tree's roots burrow beneath the building the poet is in. The poet is familiar with the tree's seasons. 2. Viewing the same tree from another room at 3am, the poet notes it takes on a different character as a still, dark silhouette. At this hour, no birds sing in its branches and it seems like a dark museum, sometimes bearing shadows from the wind. Though its life appears defeated, the tree still exists. The poet includes a note about another poem called "Transubstantiate" that is also about this tree

1. More Literary Orphans from the Poetry Ireland Forum 04/11/2013
My Tree at Night from a Different Window
1.
The Second Floor.
From here she begins where two ropes are lashed
to diverging trunks making washing lines for linens
above my riot of weeds.
She ascends to an atrophied branch finished in a dragonhead,
from thence to those pinnacle twigs holding their leaves
up and away from the drowned soil.
Her root burrows 'aneath this language of stone and brick
which forms my room.
I know her seasons of glory and of work.
2.
An adjoining room at 3am.
But I must confess that she is a different animal at 3am,
a static silhouette encumbered by breeze.
No more the warm bodies of tits flock to choir,
No more the majestic wood pigeon haunts her glossy corridors.
Ach! She is become a dark museum
Sometimes bearing a wind­wrought shadow.
Her life defeated, she is existent.
[This is related to another called 'Transubstantiate' ­ which is also about the tree...
I study it when i cannot write and thus it's in about ten poems. I have tangled
with t'other one for months and it's still s***e ­ ]
soto voce... I like looking at trees in this crazy world ;­)

2. More Literary Orphans from the Poetry Ireland Forum 04/11/2013
Bridie Is on Her Way To Prayer,
Past the purple bells that grace the wall
They will not be still ­
Raising their arms to the breeze
That blows in from the mountain.
[its a Bofara/Croagh Patrick 'Descent' cycle, there are Three inter­related
pomes to this one..]