This poem is taken from PN Review 44, Volume 11 Number 6, July - August 1985.
Sway
The women planted elm trees
packing down loose dirt
with their hands
And the children hung garlands
white-flowered, heavy
circling the lower branches
And they waited
tending the fire
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