Apple Tree

[ChristopherSea]

One million years,
spat and chewed and spat by sun cycles.
Charcoal branches
bear no fruit, only
echoes.

Petrified bole,
serpents twisting through pale air.
Heartwood, and grit,
adorned with rope tied talons, and
black feathery masses.

Pheasants hung like,
Salem heretics.
Aging game left uneaten,
cast toward roots and
eternal ashes, but

the peacock,
like the lotus flower floating on murky water,
rest above the soot soiled tree,
and above his avian sisters, floating as
a white dandolian seed
free from its dead stalk.

That is one nasty apple tree ms, but I like it. It's like The Tree of Death, ancient and decaying, with many dark trimmings. The antithesis of the overwrought tree of life,a subject for one of my poems that I am laboring with. I believe you need to chew before you spit, so I would reverse them. 'Cast upon roots' might work better than 'towards', see what you think. I don't think you need 'soot' with soiled. I like with the inkling of life and hope at it's summit. Typo 'dandelion'. Lots of imagery herein