The Afterlife of Trees, 11

By Brian Bartlett

From "The Afterlife of Trees" /Neither sheep nor cows crisscross our lives as much./Trees dangle apples and nuts for the hungry, throw/shade down for lovers, mark sites for the lost, /and first and last are/utterly themselves, /fuller and finer than any letter or number, /any 7 or T. Their fragmentary afterlife goes on/in a guitar's body and a hockey stick, in the beaked faces/up a totem pole and the stake through a vampire's heart, /in a fragrant cheese-board, a Welsh love-spoon, /a sweat-stained axe handle, a giant green dragonfly suspended from the ceiling with twine, /in the spellbinding shapechanging/behind a glass woodstove-door...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773519106
• ISBN13: 9780773519107
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.6"