“ In the stump of the old tree, where the heart has rotted out, there is a hole the length of a man’s arm, and a dank pool at the bottom of it where the rain gathers, and the old leaves turn into lacy skeletons. But do not put your hand down to see, because…”
http://margaret-cooter.blogspot.com/2015/01/poetry-thursday-stump-by-hugh-sykes.html
I understood it perfectly well. Did you don’t read it?