SUNDAY VERSES: Live Oak at ‘Gause Landing’ (3/8/2026)

By RAHN ADAMS

Were there two trees / in the storied Garden of Eden, / or was there just one?

‘GAUSE LANDING’ (circa 1996), an acrylic painting by Timberley Adams

The Tree of Life / and the Tree of the Knowledge / of Good and Evil:

One, a live oak; / the other, a sacred fig / for both food and shelter?

That’s my guess, / if the two trees were different; / so now riddle me this:

What kind of life / knows not wrong from right / and just exists in ignorant bliss?