Trees
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—for Eves and Iola Cadwallader, who planted over 4,000 trees in their lifetime.
Let me learn the language of trees
The patient and probing register of roots in summertheir thousand words for thirst,for texture, for search.
Let me learn the cadence that carrieswordless sustenancefrom tendril beneath to trunk, to limb, to leaf.
Let me learn the long and laughing language of leavestheir thousand words for wind and light,the sound of raindrops through the night.
Let me learn this language of treesthe better to pray, the better to praise. [End Page 345]
Julie Cadwallader Staub has had poems featured on The Writer's Almanac and published in many journals as well as several anthologies, notably Garrison Keillor's Good Poems: American Places, and Poetry of Presence. She was awarded a Vermont Council on the Arts grant for poetry in 2001, and her poem Milk won Hunger Mountain Review's 2015 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize. Milk and sixty other poems will be included in her upcoming collection, Wing Over Wing (forthcoming in 2019). The first collection of her poems, Face to Face, was published by Cascadia Publishing House in 2010. www.juliecspoetry.com.
