WORDS FOR TREES
WORDS FOR TREES
poems by
BARBARA FOLKART
Porcepic Books an imprint of
Beach Holme Publishing Vancouver
Copyright © 2004 by Barbara Folkart
First Edition
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This book is published by Beach Holme Publishing, Suite 1010, 409 Granville Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1T2, www.beachholme.bc.ca. This is a Porcepic Book.
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and of the British Columbia Arts Council. The publisher also acknowledges the financial assistance received from the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for its publishing activities.
Editor: Michael Carroll
Design and Production: Jen Hamilton
Cover Art: Sandor (Alex) Szatsko, Untitled
Author Photograph: Philippe Di Stefano
Printed and bound in Canada by BookSurge Canada
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data
Folkart, Barbara
Words for trees/Barbara Folkart.
Poems.
“A porcepic book.”
ISBN 0-88878-436-8
I. Title.
PS8561.O44W67 2004 C811’.6 C2002-911091-2
For Nadine McInnis
CONTENTS
Love Song from a Medieval Manuscript
In the Botanical Gardens of Paris
The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
II Time Passing Through Gardens and Fields
Time Passing Through Gardens and Fields
Close to the Green New Equinox
In Platt Fields Park
How the Berries Bled
View from the Void
Words for Trees
Birds in the Bare of November
Hive
Tangoing at the Solstice
Grief Work
Rondeau
The Time for Unfolding
Solstitial
Lady of Seven Sorrows
While We Are Old
On the Fringes of Hurricanes
Safe Outside
III Rhythms and Algorhythms
Soundtrack for Small Tulips
Algorhythms
Cat and String Quartet
Clarinet Flesh
For Unaccompanied Cello
Simple as Twilight
Bruissement
IV “Ce qui ne se retrouve jamais, jamais”
For What Can Never Ever Be Refound
Ulrike
Pharaoh’s Daughter
Flesh and Voice
For the Stranger in the Field
The Colour of Time
V Dreaming Drowning
Tear Water Pooling
Dreaming Drowning
What the Water Tells Your Skin
Les baigneuses I
Les baigneuses II
VI Lent
Good Friday in Fallowfield
I. Parsifal’s Meadow
II. The Sky’s the Colour of Grace
Purple
Beyond Beyond