| InterBoard Poetry Competition | |
CARE OF THE WEEPING CHERRY
Allen Weber
(The Frugal Poet)
It bows now only when it needs:
Brother, I’ve come to remove the ties
from your memorial tree. Its blooms
are early, pale pink under last night’s dust
of snow; this morning smells of fertile earth;
a starling cocks his head, eyes me from the fence,
near and unafraid.
Judge David Biespiel’s comments: “The poem does what an elegy ought to do--get distracted & let the Other perform the rites of loss.”
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Honorable Mention, April 2006
