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Braiding Sweetgrass Review
Review excerpted from charvermont's Summer 2021 Book List
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Nonfiction) -
My forever tree
By Roxanne Glassenberg, 17, Wellesley, MA -
Branches of my youth
By Madeleine Connery, 16, Shelburne, VT
My tree is a razor-sharp memory
Sticky pine and strong, safe trunk
Perched on the edge of a forgotten home
Which all my love has sunk -
A tree from lost generations
By Suhanee Mitragotri, 17, Lexington, MA
Great
great
great
grandparents walked the homeland.
Their footprints were artifacts in the wet mud,
memories of a time -
One Tree Island
By Ella Cisz, 13, Waterbury, VT
Alone you stand on your tiny island of weathered grey rock
Surrounded by immense calm water
A mirror provided for the sky to admire its reflection in -
Why does a willow?
By Jadyn Mardy, 18, Hempstead, NY
Why does a willow bend upside down,
Its branches floating by the ground,
Instead of reaching for the sky?
Who made it droop so low?
'Twas I.
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The River Speaks
There is a web and it holds us.
Pieces come apart so we help rebuild it.
We are a species that has forgotten our place on the web, so the earth reminds us.