—Wendlessen, from The Calendar of the Trees

I  am  sitting  cataloguing  a  copy  of  Jack the Giant Killer   by  Charles  de  Lint  and  I  came  upon  this  poem  which  he  has  cited  in  the  beginning  of  the  book :

Rowan am I and I           am sister to the Red Man
my berries are guarded           by dreamless dragons
my wood charms the           spells from witches
and in the wide plains           my floods quicken


—Wendlessen, from The Calendar of the Trees