Tennessee June by Jorie Graham

Tennessee June This is the heat that seeks the flaw in everything and loves the flaw. Nothing is heavier than its spirit, nothing more landlocked than the body within it. Its daylilies grow overnight, our lawns bare, then falsely gay, then bare again. Imagine your mind wandering without its logic, your body the sides of […]

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Bad News and Good News

Within a week of re-posting the Poetry Tree welcome notice as well as poems by Linda Pastan and William Wordsworth, all three laminated sheets were gone!  I believe that it’s the wind and the methodology of using nails to attach the sheets to the tree.  The good news is that some very clever poetry-lover attached […]

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