Poems About Wendell Berry by Top Critiquers

Heavy in native headdress,
blossoms preside
over barren forsythia,
while cork-vined Chinese wisteria  
gnarl about branches
 
English Ivy accessorizes the trunk;
some things are pruned,
while others grow deep
tango wildly
between fire and root    

They solder  one ring    
after another outward    
from below;    
an ancient womb    
of knowledge and lore    
the first humans tasted    
lifetimes ago:

one in trust
the other, love    
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