May 2023
Author's Note: Trees is the poem referred to in my essay, which also appears in this issue. My most recent book is Threnody, Moon Tide Press, 2022. I will be spending the month of May in residence at Write On Door County to work on a new book.
Trees
Larry, if you hear the crowds cheer
know it’s for the boys,
basketball champs this year.
Larry’s Wizards, in your memory,
emblazoned on their backs.
They’re growing like trees:
the palm tree on the peninsula
planted for you,
and the Nature Center’s sycamore
so hardy it will grow to a canopy
like the sycamore shading our first house,
La Carta Circle, Dear Heart, remember?
Remember the house, the street, the tree,
our three babies,
lives branching out before us
a limitless haven of green.
©2023 Donna Hilbert
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