After a long, cool winter,
At last in May a suite
Of warm days wakes the sleepers.
One covered from crown to root
In thick crepe skirtlets stops
Me, back from hibernation:
Loveliest of trees,
Big as the Ritz’s balletic
Vases charged with bloom.
Not bought, not concocted,
Only improbably real.
Why am I not surprised?
My hair is snowed with silver,
Evidence how little room
Fifty springs allow.
And yet midwinter someone
Burst to life inside me,
And lately started dancing.
Just so improbably
Snow hung along the branches
Changed suddenly to flowers.
-Emily R. Grosholz,
Childhood
(Accents Publishing)
Emily Grosholz grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and has taught philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University for thirty-five years, with sojourns in France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, Finland, Costa Rica, Russia, Greece, Spain and Italy. She and her husband Robert R. Edwards (medievalist, rugbyman, and soccer coach) raised four children in State College, Pennsylvania, surrounded by small farms and green hills on one side and the town and university on the other. She is an advisory editor for The Hudson Review,and this is her seventh book of poetry.
Childhood contains illustrations by Lucy Vines.
Lucy Vines was born in 1929 in Hartford, Connecticut. She was raised in New York City, then came to France during the McCarthy era and has lived in Paris ever since, in a milieu of writers and painters. She is married and has one child. The Morat Foundation in Freiburg, Germany, the École des Beaux-Arts in Nîmes, France, and the Maison de l’Amérique Latine in Paris have held retrospective shows devoted to her work. Her works are untitled.
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