My poem “Asymmetry” is in the Summer 2025 issue of Humana Obscura. This is an especially gorgeous journal because of the large amount of art and photography that accompanies the excellent writing. Here is the link to the online journal: www.humanaobscura.com. The poem is below:
Asymmetry
Firs are not symmetrical.
Neither the maple. Cedars like gods’ arms
crooked to every season of forgiving.
Each pine a lightning strike.
Each willow a map toward water
the way a break in the heart might look.
The trunk of a single tree
is a natural atlas. And bones of oak
become violins in a wind storm.
No one book contains the names of all
the leaves. No single illustration
gets the skeletons right.
Barren and white, poplar becomes
a landmark, its roots the true asymmetry,
paths the deer might follow
traveling last year’s rain.
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