Ancient Cherry Tree
by Eve Robillard
This cup
of ancient cherry tea tastes
of gnarled wood and windblown nests
of rain falling on winter grass.
Like an apronful of flowers, or a story
my grandmother used to tell, a doll asleep
in a box. A cupful of sunlight,
or seventeen fiddles, a flock of starlings
over a stony field, and their clever shadows.
originally published in everything happens twice, Fireweed Press, 2002
Eve Robillard has two poetry chapbooks: everything happens twice (Fireweed Press, 2002) and when gertrude married alice (Parallel Press, 2004). Her poetry has appeared in Montserrat Review; Madison Review; Wisconsin Poets at the Elvehjem;Sheepshead Review; A Room of One's Own Anthology; Wisconsin Academy Review;The Wisconsin Poets Calendar and other publications. Eve writes for both children and adults; her role models are E. B. White & Nancy Willard.
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