Pages

▼

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Etta Blum: "I Am the Tree"



















I am the tree ascending.
At the topmost branch
I’ve become the bird,
starting from tip to
climb into above.
                            After-
ward, cloud.
                    Why not?
My purposes are clear.



"I Am the Tree" by Etta Blum. Text as published in The Space My Body Fills: Poems (Exposition Press, 1975).

Art credit: Untitled photograph by 

on

1 comment :

  1. Atomus BlissThursday, April 27, 2023

    Perhaps the greatest poem ever written. Clean and clear, with lots of room to breathe~

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for participating respectfully in this blog's community of readers.