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Potential Titles: Trees [category]
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:
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"
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"
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.
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:
Mangrove thrusts deep in salty mud - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
In the land of mangroves and abandonment - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
In hollows under the mangrove root - Elinor Wylie "Escape"
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.
Ponderosa:
Ridgeline ponderosas wind-pardoned - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Poplar.
Quince:
Groves of mango, quince and lime - Robert Graves "It's a Queer Time"
Among the wind-felled bodies of my quince trees - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
Eye acrid as a quince - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
Leaves fall from the quince tree - Wang Yu-ch'eng "Journey to a Village" transl. by Burton Watson
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.]
Sapling.
Shagbark:
Twisted vines on a shagbark tree - Conrad Hilberry "Angles"
Shrub-Pine:
Treasure spilled near the shrub-pines - H.D. "Sea Poppies"
Spruce.
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.
Navigation Links:
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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:
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"
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"
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.
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:
Mangrove thrusts deep in salty mud - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
In the land of mangroves and abandonment - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
In hollows under the mangrove root - Elinor Wylie "Escape"
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.
Ponderosa:
Ridgeline ponderosas wind-pardoned - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Poplar.
Quince:
Groves of mango, quince and lime - Robert Graves "It's a Queer Time"
Among the wind-felled bodies of my quince trees - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
Eye acrid as a quince - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
Leaves fall from the quince tree - Wang Yu-ch'eng "Journey to a Village" transl. by Burton Watson
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.]
Sapling.
Shagbark:
Twisted vines on a shagbark tree - Conrad Hilberry "Angles"
Shrub-Pine:
Treasure spilled near the shrub-pines - H.D. "Sea Poppies"
Spruce.
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.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.