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STEVEN CROSS

Clearing Trees


The dismembered limbs of the old oak trees
    piled in a heap
are wooden bones bleaching in the summer's heat.
The killers stack corpses
    in haphazard piles
    and set them ablaze.
The wood screams for days
    as smoke licks bare skin
    and stench rises in the wind.
Between rows of dead trees
Pastures gleam.
Dozers steam.
Their steel teeth
    chews, stained green
    from the kill.
Roots ripped clean from the clay,
the slaughter is complete.

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RE Clearing Trees copyright STEVEN CROSS

Emotion and Kinetic. What I first notice the title which is both the act of CLEARING the trees away and a descriptive of trees around an open space in a forest. From this opposition CROSS creates a scene of emminent danger (clearing by fire) and of an open - hopeful and welcoming - space. The stanzas - those first lines at margin - detail both emotions as they rush together as one might flee fire or rush into the light of a clearingclearing. This kinetic is 'clearly' not secondary to the elements described.

A poet should have a 'natural' voice - Steven Cross certainly does.

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