from “Daughter of a Tree Farm” by Carrie Olivia Adams

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend December 23, 2014   from “Daughter of a Tree Farm”   Carrie Olivia Adams

When children can no longer devote sympathy, owing to growing up. One mind always engaged or found with labor in order to be. Later on the trees acquired winter. Sent and took and did not go out. The weight of never shedding. We anticipated a cure if come willingly. We were unable to carry out nature. These impressions, fresh, often made me to see his life previous, the principal sadness I had to recognize.   We planted trees. We cleared the pond. Gathered different, undisturbed faith. Gradually the steps further and further withdrawing over the hills, beyond the fencerow. I was too weak. I was often driven, but saw no way. I would never go back.   The difference, between us, not because I remained the same, unable to unalter, but taken from the midst, rarely clouded, and the broken. It was this, which woke me open, opened to an outsider, a stranger.            Copyright © 2014 by Carrie Olivia Adams. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “The sequence of poems ‘Daughter of a Tree Farm’ has at its foundation an erasure of the Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy as translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf in 1922. The poems draw on this erased text, while incorporating my own words to find a synthesis of the two minds.” —Carrie Olivia Adams   Carrie Olivia Adams is the author of Forty-One Jane Doe’s (Ahsahta Press, 2013). She is the poetry editor for Black Ocean Press and a book publicist for the University of Chicago Press. She lives in Chicago. Most Recent Book by Adams   Forty-One Jane Doe’s (Ahsahta Press, 2013)   "Imaginary June" by C. D. Wright "On Anti-Biography" by Will Alexander "Dream in Which I Meet Myself" by Lynn Emanuel Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038