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A tree forms itself

Sandra Peterson Ramirez

Posted on March 16, 2016

Dead and Alive Oak Trees

 

Winter, Spring
by Jim Harrison

 

Winter is black and beige down here
from drought. Suddenly in March
there’s a good rain and in a couple
of weeks we are enveloped in green.
Green everywhere in the mesquites, oaks,
cottonwoods, the bowers of thick
willow bushes the warblers love
for reasons of food or the branches,
the tiny aphids they eat with relish.

 

Each year it is a surprise
that the world can turn green again.
It is the grandest surprise in life,
the birds coming back from the south to my open
arms, which they fly past, aiming at the feeders.

 

 

Sabbaths IV (1999)
by Wendell Berry

 

What a consolation it is, after
the explanations and the predictions

of further explanations still
to come, to return unpersuaded
to the woods, entering again
the presence of the blessed trees.
A tree forms itself in answer
to its place and to the light.

Explain it how you will, the only

thing explainable will be
your explanation. There is
in the woods on a summer’s

morning, birdsong all around
from guess where, nowhere
that rigid measure which predicts

only humankind’s demise.

 

 

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and hope’s a reptile waiting for the sun

Sandra Peterson Ramirez

Posted on February 5, 2014

In Hiding

Lui et Elle

O Mistress, Mistress,

Reptile Mistress,

Your eye is very dark, very bright,

And it never softens

Although you watch.

 

~from Lui et Elle by D. H. Lawrence

 

 

February

The cold grows colder, even as the days

grow longer, February’s mercury vapor light

buffing but not defrosting the bone-white

ground, crusty and treacherous underfoot.

This is the time of year that’s apt to put

a hammerlock on a healthy appetite,

old anxieties back into the night,

insomnia and nightmares into play;

when things in need of doing go undone

and things that can’t be undone come to call,

muttering recriminations at the door,

and buried ambitions rise up through the floor

and pin your wriggling shoulders to the wall;

and hope’s a reptile waiting for the sun.

 

~from February by Bill Christophersen

 

Source: Poetry (February 2002)

 

 

 

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Photo by Sandra Peterson Ramirez.

 

Poems and Poets

td Whittle

Posted on January 23, 2012

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Favourite Poet (1888) Private Collection

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Favourite Poet (1888) Private Collection

This week, we are beginning a new category of posts, featuring some of our favourite poets and poems. We will add to the series randomly, as we discover or remember poems we wish to include. Sometimes, we will share a few interesting facts about the poet, but if the poet is still widely read today, we will skip the fact-sharing and simply post the poem on its own.

 

The choices we make will be based purely on our belief in the aesthetic value of the poetry itself, rather than on any social, political, or other “extra-poetic” (as Harold Bloom would say) factors.

 

We hope you enjoy the poems as much as we do.

 

  

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