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| Lionel Bicknell Constable Tree in a Meadow ca. 1850 oil on board Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Jean-François Millet Meadow with Trees ca. 1866-68 watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Thomas Hearne The Chestnut Tree at Little Wymondley, Hertfordshire ca. 1790 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Robert Gibbings Trees at Oxenbridge ca. 1920-30 wood-engraving Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Aelbert Cuyp Landscape near Dordrecht ca. 1640-45 drawing Graphische Sammlung, Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| attributed to Traugott Faber Trees near Dresden ca. 1850 drawing Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Paul Baum Mourning (Early Spring Landscape) 1894 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot La Lecture sous les arbres 1874 lithograph Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Charles-François Daubigny L'Arbre aux corbeaux 1867 etching Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Paula Modersohn-Becker Birch Tree in a Landscape 1899 oil on board Harvard Art Museums |
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| Jan Lievens Pollard Willows ca. 1660-70 drawing British Museum |
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| William J. Forsyth Tree Trunk ca. 1880-81 drawing Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Edward Duncan Trees overhanging a Stream before 1882 watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Joseph Francis Currier Study of Trees ca. 1880 drawing Brooklyn Museum |
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| George Inness Summer Landscape 1876 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| William Bruce Ellis Ranken The Yellow Tree ca. 1910 oil on canvas Armagh County Museum, Northern Ireland |
Permitted a Meadow
I like the blue pill best.
Just like a gladiola, its true flower
is invisible.
The rest is holy.
Not like in that Tintoretto
where no one knows god is dying,
just the usual jingle and squawk
from the birdmongers then sudden
from the birdmongers then sudden
downpour, a few of the demons dwelling
beneath the earth tentatively stir.
Not like that. Not tentative. Imploring.
The wound tingles.
A head of foam forms on the mountain.
Into my hand is placed a Mycenaean horse.
Into my hand is placed a wax hand.
The fox gets closer.
Mint barks.
5% of its life, an ant is active.
The rest is holy.
Wolfhowl ringtone is holy.
Sticking out your tongue
in the rearview mirror is holy.
Any song that never leaves the lungs,
all us animals garlanded and belled.
– Dean Young (2017)