The 2River View | 24.4 (Summer 2020) |
Maura High And the Living is Easy Petunias loll in their clay pots, stumps They say, “There is plenty of time, I know this is a lie, a local Later, I will boil a syrup for the hummingbirds, Clearcut Craig Tract of the Bolin Forest, Orange County, North Carolina A forest remembers what to do after a death, after in the disarray and silence. I think it does not grieve It grows. Toward a future written in its genes, horseweed blown in, washed down into the tractor ruts. remembering the shade, and tree-rings, remembering the trees; and the cracked mud, layers of them below the loblollies. Maura High, originally from Wales, but settled now in North Carolina. Her poems have appeared in the New England Review, Southern Review, and Tar River Quarterly.
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