HEART OF YEW

Poems inspired by the spirit of the Yew. Cygnus Books, 2012. 

Poems about yew trees, with photos by Andy McGeeney, naturalist, photographer and ecotherapist. The book, designed by Fred Hageneder, includes a free CD of Jehanne reading the poems with harp music by Fred: tree man, book designer, artist, musician and composer.

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Prologue

If you are afraid to fall,
everywhere is edge and
crumbling:

the puddle where the rubble of
the old road rises;

this spring about to uncoil,
all at once in ripples,
out of bole and bough;

the speckled depths in the eyes
of friends,
when words threaten to open the
gulfs of the heart.

Nowhere is safe now;
we could tumble through anywhere,
without warning,
slipping into adjacent landscapes
we have always inhabited,
but with closed eyes,
between breaths.

Everywhere
we are threatened
with awakening.