Forgotten Ground Regained
Beech (Fagus spp.)
Bookstaves grow · on the bark of Beech,woodcarved witnesses · to joys and wishes,testaments to lives · and to long-forgotten loves.But a blank beauty · bides in the greynessof a trunk untouched · by a carver’s tools —the toddling tyke · has a tale yet untold.
Photograph by Judd Bemels
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Copyright © Judd Bemmels, 2023
First Published in Forgotten Ground Regained, New Series, Issue 5, Winter, 2025
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