In the Heat of the Forest

In the Heat of the Forest features over 70 pieces, in the form of prose and poetry, spinning around trees and their prehistoric plight of being considered as material instead of fully alive like all animals, except that they cannot take flight whether to the sky or away from predators and fire, although there are species of trees that can withstand the latter and even many predators, save us, of course. I love trees and most other plants. I seem to love humans too, and most other animals, but I may be biased, of course. Yet, in terms of being able to communicate, I think that I can understand trees better, not caring much about what most other animals are purported to be implying, with an adequate quantity of exceptions, nonetheless, such as many birds and a bit higher number of humans. This "literary" assembly features 27 prose pieces and 47 poems in several forms, including the sonnet (my favourite), alexandrine and acrostic. Other forms of poetry include the haiku, haiku plus (my "novelty"), tanka, mantinada, twittle and, of course, free verse, as well as new lyrics to three known songs. A couple of the prose pieces use poetry for one reason or another, even in the form of a paragraph instead of the typical layout of a poem.