An Old Cherry Tree
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Cracked straight through the middle,A crocodile with grey-black warts.A few delicate pink skinsFloat, nearly bodiless. [End Page 516]
Toi Derricotte
TOI DERRICOTTE is the author of a number of books of poems, including The Undertaker’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), Tender (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), which won the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize, and Captivity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989). Elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2012, she is a Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh.
