The tree gazed at the disappearing ground.
It couldn’t stay there,
its nourishment would be gone.
So it gathered up its roots into vast legs
and stumbled its way across the
evaporating forest
to an area of neat grassland,
digging down to plant itself beside
the hive of two-legged beings
who spilt their freshly poured coffee
and ran to their moving metal boxes
to get out of its wake.