The Trees Who Wear Their Character on Their Skin
Bark has a painful texture, like it’s been scratched, grooved by claws. Except for gum trees. They look like a snake that’s just shed its skin, but it’s not very good at shedding, so you can still see bits of this layer, and the last layer, and the last layer. At first, it looks like paint splotches, as though the snake zipped through a studio of abstract artists, but then you realize it’s all skin and it’s hard to be as whimsical