The argument in the poem is that a tree does something that is so amazing, someone cannot describe it in words. Robert Hess tries to describe the tree, but he can't. Of course everyone knows what a tree does, but they cannot describe it. Even if there is beautiful poetry that tries, it doesn't do the tree justice. So Hess ends his poem by saying that the tree does "something in the wind."
I think Hass is trying to show how poets try to describe trees. They use language that is supposed to be deep and beautiful, but in reality the language could never describe what the tree really does.
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