Remembrance of Water & Twenty-Five Trees (Bitter Oleander Press)
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Publication of the poetry collection Remembrance of Water & Twenty-Five Trees (Bitter Oleander Press), with paintings by Caroline François-Rubino. Here are two excerpts from the sequence « The Last Cherry Tree »:
« rising from farmland
an abandoned backyard
or is it from a playground
the cherry tree lingers
long you have been away
from the first and only center
why is it
that tree
its boughs
bending down with fruit
*
inside you
did it take shape
during works and days
not the felled elms of your shady street
but the never-climbed cherry tree
tiny red promises
in a distant backyard
through the shimmering mist of spring
or was it winter
the bare silhouette
barren branches
were also necessary
so you could become
someone else. . . »
The book can be ordered from the Bitter Oleander Press website or from Small Press Distribution.
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