NVN Monday: A WOMAN SEES A REDBUD TREE ON EARTH DAY
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by Ilene Millman *Bloom summoned by spring rains has summoned her— she stands on her patio square stretching up in her sleepy gray sweats, morning sun slowly climbing the arc of sky. From where she stands, all rosy blossoms up and down the redbud like pink freckles on tanned arms the woman watches the sun curve up around the tree’s branches like a playful kitten, and at the touchy tips she sees tiny heart-shaped leaves almost translucent as the eyelids of newborns. A cardinal hops from pinked arm to arm to the top of the tree his raucous ring of birdie, birdie, birdie ending in a slow trill. It was the whistle of this songbird rising on the gaunt wind that caught her— Aren’t we all susceptible? Her mind draws the details— disappearing species melting icecaps, rising seas and the redbud offering its hearts and the redbud offering its hearts.
NVN Monday: A WOMAN SEES A REDBUD TREE ON EARTH DAY
NVN Monday: A WOMAN SEES A REDBUD TREE ON…
NVN Monday: A WOMAN SEES A REDBUD TREE ON EARTH DAY
by Ilene Millman *Bloom summoned by spring rains has summoned her— she stands on her patio square stretching up in her sleepy gray sweats, morning sun slowly climbing the arc of sky. From where she stands, all rosy blossoms up and down the redbud like pink freckles on tanned arms the woman watches the sun curve up around the tree’s branches like a playful kitten, and at the touchy tips she sees tiny heart-shaped leaves almost translucent as the eyelids of newborns. A cardinal hops from pinked arm to arm to the top of the tree his raucous ring of birdie, birdie, birdie ending in a slow trill. It was the whistle of this songbird rising on the gaunt wind that caught her— Aren’t we all susceptible? Her mind draws the details— disappearing species melting icecaps, rising seas and the redbud offering its hearts and the redbud offering its hearts.