Oak Gall Wasp by Robyn Schiff - Poems | Academy of American Poets

Oak Gall Wasp - Something like a wooden pearl, what gall / forms here, irritation’s

Oak Gall Wasp Add to anthology × Load audio player Robyn Schiff Something like a wooden pearl, what gall forms here, irritation’s gemstone on the oak- leaf-underneath I thought was a berry, seed- case, or oak-faced scrotum-like excrescence the oak tree seemed to make of itself in extremis involved with power. For no reason when we were girls plucking these woodland BBs from the branch to flick at the back fence, about so much unsuspecting I was mistaken by dissemination meticulously more single-minded than the mere widest distribution of seed over the furthest expanse; as I follow Americ

related reading

• Mythologies | The Poetry Foundationpoetryfoundation.org
• Instructions on Not Giving Uppoets.org
• The Raspberry Roompoetryfoundation.org
• www.gleech.orggleech.org
• The Summer After You Die, I Steal a Magnoliapoetryfoundation.org
• Wonder Wheel by Wo Chan - Poems | Academy of American Poetspoets.org
• Kernel | MY GHOSTS REMIND ME OF A WORLD NOT YET MADEkernelmag.io
• October – Poetry Dailypoems.com
• The Cloudpoetryfoundation.org
• Meditation at Lagunitas | The Poetry Foundationpoetryfoundation.org
• Glovespoetryfoundation.org
• [There are forces that twist the tops of us like pliers.] by Leslie Sainz - Poems | Academy of American Poetspoets.org