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Carolyn Miller: Street Trees of San Francisco
Crab apple trees blooming all over town! Some brave, hopeful soul in the street-tree department has ordered them planted on tired boulevards and wind-blasted avenues, in the sad alleys and on dusty side streets: little staked stick trees lined up and blossoming, red mallow/rose madder/magenta to candy pink, flamboyant pom-poms dancing alongside old ficuses—elephant-skinned and struggling for balance—proud magnolias and harum-scarum gum trees, gnarled pittosporums smelling of jasmine, and—just in time for the warm days of spring, and despite everything that keeps going wrong—the ginkgos, opening tiny green fans.
Copyright 2017 Carolyn Miller. From Route 66 And It’s Sorrows (Terrapin, 2017).
Carolyn Miller grew up in the Missouri Ozarks. Today she lives in San Francisco, where she writes, paints, and works as a free-lance copy editor.
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