Grandfather Trees

Grandfather Sycamore

A sapling planted 

Near the Columbia

Flowing free

At Eighty-eight

No more sees salmon

Yet knows less flooding

More fields of irrigated crops

And electricity to light, heat, and cool:

Loss and gain

The sycamore 

knows change.

Sheri Edwards  

10.21.22   296.365.22  

Poetry/Photography

https://flic.kr/p/2nUnvj8

Grandfather Cottonwood

Sacred and honored,

Cottonwood knew 

the herds of buffalo 

grazing along the Big Muddy 

Missouri banks

Where its posts sheltered, strengthened

Hidatsa and Mandan earth lodges

And warmed them with its fire in the bitter 

of Dakota winters.

Sheri Edwards  

10.21.22   296.365.22   

Poetry/Photography

https://sheri42.net/2022/10/21/writeout-leaf-history-map/

WriteOut WhatElse Leaf History Maps

https://flic.kr/p/2nUhdSp

#clmooc #DS106  @ds106dc   #tdc3934 #writeout 

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