View across the canopy of an old forest in sunlight.

Climax

climax: in ecology, the final stable stage of development in a given environment

the climax is overrated

according to modern ecology
an idealized condition
touted falsely

as the end point

overshadowing other trajectories
in the forest

ongoing unfolding

of ruffled duff

renewing undoing

of broken canopies

concealing revealing

of buds awake to the not yet

the roused ground ever becoming.