Birmingham
Poetry
Review
"In the Center of Her Painting"
There is a particular treeupon which the usual greenery
looks especially dazzling
It's not a dogwood, devilwood,
no fever-tree
Something simple like a poplar
but as it
shakes out its paper leaves,
its round green flippant
pretty leaves,
I can't help but put my fingers
on the hard, smooth trunk
where I can feel
the tremble start and fade
as the breezes pass.
--Ann Hoff
Ann Hoff is an assistant professor in the English Department at UAB where she specializes in Modernist poetry.
