Congratulations, Rob, on the most direct allusively sexual poem I've ever
read. Amazing.
Best,
Judy
2009/1/7 robert e. watling jr <[log in to unmask]>
> birches
>
> three birch saplings
> burlap root ball
> digging the hole
> i fell, she laughed
> watering it
> sinking the ball
> birches five years
> over the roof
> later wilting
> then three birch stumps
> five inches tall
>
> that year we lost
> five of our trees
> the three birches
> maple out front
> the big old oak
> cutting them down
> we came apart
> i moved out here
> stumptown so-called
> palm tree out front
> bamboo in back
>
> rewjr
>
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