Body on Bare Ground

An incident’s a pattern
In the over-eager mind,
Any incident, which is

Why so many patterns prove
Unreliable. Bad guess
Again, friend. The trees downslope

Get sparser. The trees up high
Get sparser as well. The cold
And the heat tend opposite,

But they have the same effect
On tree girth, on the thickness
Of the woods. An incident,

Any one, is a pattern,
But cross-hatchings have to cross.