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Home / The Cherry Trees

The Cherry Trees

by Marly Youmans
Issue #31
Fall 1983
No salt glaze on a dish is so delicately cracked as are this morning's leaves, shelled in ice. The cherry stones still linked to the tree, the cables of the rose arbor, the hips and myrtle husks and curled threads...

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