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Remembrance of Water & Twenty-Five Trees (Bitter Oleander Press)

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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