CLIMBER All summer the clematis wilted in a container The trefoil leaves were pale their roots repressed in silence. Until a climber was planted out back - filled with dark earth. Shoots discovered new found space growing with energy from suns an awareness of moons. Now the faint-scented pink and white flowers are dancing in the sky, foliage spread benignly camouflaging the grey of winter looking ahead to layering in spring. -- Paddy Glavin "Seeing the Wood and the Trees," ed. Rowley & Haughton, Cairde Na Coille, Forest Friends Ireland/Rowan Tree Press ( 2003).