We surmise           the existence                     of ancestor languages           and ancestor treestheir general vocalic nucleus                  a liquid                   the more exact        shape of whichis not specifiedthe tree namestheir meanings         and botanical realities                theories of nominal root structure        oak beams and              paleobotanical pollen diagramse.g., where pastoralists        cropped elm and linden shoots                  shouting names into the Arboreal Real        that language and habitat co-hearthe dirt clinging to these phones        and the fracas of migration patternsMorphemes as clear-cut as treesthe parts of a chariot ora tree are related anatomicallylaks – lox – salmon – one of the oldest wordsstill held in our mouthstasting sea and river in their bodiesfeeding the roots of treeswe continually try to nameyou apple maple elm and nuta sort of verbal penumbrathe linden a precarious hypothesisrivers of light veining canopy shynessash spear bone haftedhornbeam household hewingelm or linden with stonesubsystems of soundcovariational whether a morphemerefers to juniper or cedarpaleobotanical tree inventoryfossil pollen from virgin forestsmeadow groves and wooded riversidesgenera evident in pollenshowing up in linguistic inventoryplace and name honing each otherpollen inferred tree migrantsand PIE names accompanying each othereast and west over space and timesuccessional changes in relation toclimate and soil and thecontingent dependencies of biotaafter fires and floodspioneer genera emerge fromcatastrophe speaking new diasporic languagesmeasuring the distancefrom tree refugiajuniper after glacial retreatthen aspen and willowthen birch and pinedominating the Preborealhazel with the Borealapple and maple in her towseeking the word “deciduous”to speak oak and elmand possibly frost-sensitive asha dramatic rise in response to climate changeaccompanied by linden andforming climax forests from Germanyto the Caucasus thenin the late Atlantichornbeam and spruce and firand the language that they usedsuch was the arboreal orientationthe oak becoming pervasive asayg- or perk- or dorw-the Subboreal then markinganother abrupt climate changewinters growing colderthe beech spreading south and westalong with the Indo-Europeansthe walnut entered or was carried