Books of Ether Vol.4 - Growing Trees (collaboration with Cheryl Penn)

Growing Trees is a poem about making roots

in our own garden and extending branches towards

the world outside.

It's about taking care and caring, about the gardeners

that we all are.

Marie Wintzer

Don't second-guess

growing trees

write off

the unanswerable questions

plant every seed

      springing forth - 

      a compatible labyrinth

welcome to the secret world

Cheryl Penn

Fresh from the oven, the collaborative poem Growing Trees, Vol.4 in Books of Ether, is now available for free download at Scribd. Here are a few lines from the poem, and for the full text please visit: https://www.scribd.com/doc/258595673/Growing-Trees

They said to him you don’t take 
care of yourself in the midst of

mimosa madness
    we shall have to get

someone fake to take care
of you/words/paint/roots 
your memory may be wiped 
but your hat was on
I could not see your eyes 
inRows upon Rows

    of Phylogenic Trees.

You had a dream
Sit down, I will tell you 
running backwards
with your hair
in your face
in a parallel world
where even Time cannot fly. 
That's nice, but
can we make a living
with those shrubs
or are they only going to grow 
roots-into-blind-pipes?
You know their mirrors 
aren't that acute anymore 
Are you sewed-up? 

collecting shattered glass roots 
hitting dust from bookseagles on wooden cupboards 
mirrored in dirty bowls
everything is off
when we dream backwards
in a discarded house.
Hey Dad
it’s Madison (from a parallel world
       Sans trees) 
how are you
fine, you 
know
finea connectionlost. 

Maybe you should seethe Taxman on the Hill(he irons his electricity bills 
but they don't love him back). 
He too
  lost connection
  lost his mind on the Light Rail 
  lost his wedding ring in the mailbox
  lost a decade of photographs 
  lost all craving for junk food 
  lost the remote while TV was watching him
It won't be long until
Dust relapses into Libraries