Potential Titles: Trees [category]

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Tree.

Plants/Trees - Parts [category].


Acacia.

Alder.

Almond.

Ash (both trees and fire residue).

Aspen.

Balsa:
My fingertips were all balsa - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"

Balsam.

Baobab:
Even the baobab trees will split open at my command - Mahtem Shiferraw "We, Made of Bone"

Each time a baobab drops a beetle - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

Beech.

Birch.

Black Walnut:
Blackbird shouting in the black walnut tree - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Boortree:
The boortree and the lightsome ash across the portal grow - William Allingham "Abbey Asaroe"
[another name for an elder tree]

Boxwood:
Carved his body from a bough of box-tree - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXIV: Brotherless Sisters" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Lounges in an abstract of boxwood and holly - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"

Camphor:
Rigid myrrh-bud, camphor-flower - H.D. "Sea Iris"

Carob Tree:
The language of sunbirds trilling in the carob trees - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha "Dialogic"

Cedar.

Chalk Maple:
Rub chalk maple over the head of a screech - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Cherry.

Chestnut.

Christmas Tree:
Curtailed by the ever-growing Christmas trees - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"

Cottonwood.

Crabapple:
Crabapples and blackberries to share with the birds - Theodora Goss "The Gold-Spinner"

The last of the maroon crabapple ovates - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

Cypress.

Dogwood.

Ebon/Ebony.

Elder:
Where the grey elder-thickets hang - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"

Elm.

Eucalyptus.

Evergreen.

Fir.

Fuchsia.

Ginko:
Little ginko fans confettied on the sidewalk - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"

The trumpet vine that grows up the ginko's trunk - Carl Phillips "Fall Colors"

Gravetree:
Gravetree estuaries against the winds of Paradise - Charles Wright "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted..."

Greenwood:
Out in the greenwood to romp and play - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Fifty years under the greenwood tree - Andrew Lang "The Brigand's Grave"

Hawthorn.

Hazel.

Hemlock.

Hickory.

Honey Locust:
Covet the seeds of the honey locust - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"

Ironbark Eucalyptus:
The ironbark eucalyptus dwells in ignorance and beauty - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"

Ironwood:
Before the first big freeze cracks ironwood - M. Bartley Seigel "Into the Thicket"

Japanese Maple:
Burgundy air under the Japanese maples - Brian Tierney "Catering"

Joshua Tree:
Roosting in the dark branches of the Joshua tree - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Juniper.

Larch.

Laurel.

Lemon.

Linden.

Locust Tree:
The breath therein of a locust-tree - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 45"

Magnolia.

Mahogany:
In unfettered mahogany abandon - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

Darkens with alabaster and mahogany - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Watch true brews slide down that mahogany bar - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

Mangrove.

Maple.

Mesquite.

Mimosa:
White lights in the mimosa trees - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"

The mimosa casts its delicate shadows - "The Breath of Spring" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Monkey Puzzle:
the fossilized needles of a monkey puzzle - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]

Mulberry.

Oak.

Oleander.

Olive trees.

Palm (tree).

Parasol Tree:
A table in the shade of a parasol tree - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"

Pine.

Piñon:
Straight up the piñon-studded shale - Carol Moldaw "What We Wanted"

Ponderosa:
Ridgeline ponderosas wind-pardoned - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Seeking openings in the ponderosa pines - Carol Moldaw "What We Wanted"

Poplar.

Quince.

Raintree:
To rest in the shade of the metal raintrees - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"

Redbud:
Beech tree and redbud fine-laced in vines - Anne Spencer "Life-Long, Poor Browning..." [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Even the redbuds and goldenrod you cultivate - Keith Taylor "Prayers from the Polish Church, Detroit, 1963"

Redbuds dispersing their ruby secrets - Amie Whittemore "Ghosting Aubade"

Redwood:
Listen for a green word from the redwoods - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

The penumbra of a redwood across frozen ground - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"

Pornographic magazines ported into the redwoods - Dean Young "Lucifer"

Rowan:
Berried branches of the rowan - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin Over His Sons"

Chewing bitter rowanberries - Krystyna Dąbrowska "Confession" transl. by Karen Kovacik

At the foot of the rowan-tree - "Do You Remember that Night?" transl. by Eleanor Hull [Written down by O'Curry for Dr. George Petrie.]

To pluck a branch of rowan red with fruit - "The Táin: Book III" (transl. by Mary A. Hutton)

Sapling.

Shagbark:
Twisted vines on a shagbark tree - Conrad Hilberry "Angles"

Shrub-Pine:
Treasure spilled near the shrub-pines - H.D. "Sea Poppies"

Spruce.

Sugar Maple:
Pleasure in the veins of a sugar maple - Arthur Sze "The Shapes of Leaves"

Sumac.

Sycamore.

Tamarack:
Through golden tamaracks in autumn - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"

Tea-Tree:
A trumpet in the tea-tree - Furnley Maurice "Neely Lorst"

Walnut.

Willow.

Yew.


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