Hello, Tina-
i liked your poem too & would agree with Janet about the last line-
Are there any (from the drift of your post on visiting redwoods & political
timber i'm guessing there are) tree poems or tree books or tree poets you
like?
I liked that (coffee-table with substance; bizarre celebrity tome) Meetings
With Remarkable Trees, because of its relation to earlier "tree biography" -
truly Silva rhetoricae
also the sections on trees in Robert Graves' White goddess are a favourite
of mine too.
and although he's not a poet i particularly warm to, C K Williams wrote one
of his long-lined poems about an oak tree (i think) which had a rather
effective mimesis of the mass of leaves being blown in a sudden passing
breeze its syntax
(in the collection Repair, published in the uk with a strikingly ugly pink
cover)
Edmund
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