Description Share Post I Hear the Trees Untamed Poems from Mother Earth Zaro Weil, illustrated by Junli Song (Hachette) Have you ‘gathered in enough/ seen heard smelled// deep enough/ to grow [your] own// memory-roots‘? Could it be that you can claim I Hear the Trees? Thereafter, what are you absorbing of Mother Earth through your senses? Your experiences? Might you become bewitched by the ‘brilliant bush‘ of ‘blue blue beauts- bunches of bounteous berries‘? Then again, might you hear the ‘croaking chorus‘ of ‘three green frogs‘? Moreover might you wonder how- ‘the clouds play… in a sky-game of puffs and frilly white ruffs‘? Then again, what if ‘you should just happen to// put your ear very close-‘ to hear ‘a razzmatazz night fungi- breathe your name in a/ wondrously weird way‘? Bookwagon asserts that poets have a super sensitive connection to nature and feelings. After all, think of the might and wonder within Out There in the Wild: Poems on Nature. Then again, we believe, further, that Zaro Weil‘s sensitivity is even further attuned. Thereafter, it is as though readers are eavesdropping upon observations and conversations. For example, we might be attuned to the howling little cub with his ‘proud ears alert‘ and his ‘big wolf heart’ full? Or even party to the Big Love song from ‘a very old tree to a sapling‘ remembering ‘how beautiful it was‘? There is yearning, but hope, resolve and such inspiration. This last arrives not only through the varied subjects and styles, but through the poet’s confident, diligent approach. She is here today. What’s more, we are joined with her. In fact, we are captivated. Bookwagon is overjoyed to welcome aboard I Hear the Trees.
