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Poetry Month 2015: Maria Melendez
ARS POETICA: PLATANUS RACEMOSA by Maria Melendez Here’s amor, clawing the skin of sycamores— track it by the jagged patches of bare trunk exposed between pieces of broken bark. Who should you ask about the way love picks at the surface puzzle, crunches away the discernable for the porous inner wood? How did those “clever natives” know boiled bark could treat a springtime wheeze? A little trial and error, sure, but mostly, the tree asked to be used that way.Read More