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Naomi Shihab Nye: Trees Gossip with the Birds
(Gossip Café, Dubai) No one gets hurt it’s gentle gossip Which way the wind is blowing How warm or cooling the sea If we had tree ears bird voices we could join in I’m listening right before I wake up Listening when I go to sleep Human thoughts bounce hard inside the brain Palestinian pain Syrian catastrophe so much opulence here But tree bird gossip floats sweetly When the orange sun sinks over the AZIZI sign I feel the darkening world soaking up all the extra noise hope of the sky deeper inside mine
“Trees Gossip with the Birds” from The Tiny Journalist, copyright 2019 by Naomi Shihab Nye, BOA Editions, Ltd., www.boaeditions.org.
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Just a delightful poem. Do you have a poet divining rod, Michael, made form the wood of gossiping trees? Because you sure have a knack for finding them.
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I’ve been an editor and publisher for a long time, Matthew. Naomi is not only one of the best poets in the country, but she is also the kindest person I’ve ever known. It’s a pleasure publishing her poems.
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