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Issue 41/42 : July - December, 2008 : Volume 11 No 1/2



Lori Rappaport

The Willow Tree

Shall we walk under the Willow Tree?
I said to my son and his friend Jonathon,
Though we trespass
And risk someone hollering or
Waving their finger at us
Let us take our shoes off and feel
The grass under our feet and let
The branches of the Willow Tree
Touch our hair and necks.

Son, I said, when you grow up
Buy a big house and plant
A Willow Tree so that
I may close my eyes and take rest
Under its long and waving branches

Shabdaguchha, an International Bilingual Poetry Journal, edited by Hassanal Abdullah