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Braiding Sweetgrass Review
Review excerpted from charvermont's Summer 2021 Book List
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Nonfiction) -
My forever tree
By Roxanne Glassenberg, 17, Wellesley, MA -
Branches of my youth
By Madeleine Connery, 16, Shelburne, VT
My tree is a razor-sharp memory
Sticky pine and strong, safe trunk
Perched on the edge of a forgotten home
Which all my love has sunk -
A tree from lost generations
By Suhanee Mitragotri, 17, Lexington, MA
Great
great
great
grandparents walked the homeland.
Their footprints were artifacts in the wet mud,
memories of a time -
One Tree Island
By Ella Cisz, 13, Waterbury, VT
Alone you stand on your tiny island of weathered grey rock
Surrounded by immense calm water
A mirror provided for the sky to admire its reflection in -
Why does a willow?
By Jadyn Mardy, 18, Hempstead, NY
Why does a willow bend upside down,
Its branches floating by the ground,
Instead of reaching for the sky?
Who made it droop so low?
'Twas I.
Loves
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Fixing What Is Broken
When the world is at its darkest days,
Turn the light on.
When someone is lost,
Find them
Hold them
And assure them
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New feeling
There’s this new feeling
It’s a very different feeling
But it’s a good feeling
I thought I had this figured out
But like Icarus with the sun
I still had no idea what would be done
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An Answer of Why
“Why do the small things matter to you?”
I’ve never been asked this question,
but I’ve thought about it numerous times.
Why do they?
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A Name
When a name is said
It echoes
Dreary and sad
I'd rather not have a name
So I cannot be defined
Or have a name
That remains unknown
To thoughts and words surround
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The Small Things
I try to notice things others wouldn’t,
but sometimes it’s as hard as finding a certain star
in the night sky full of millions that reflect like a mirror.
Although, for all the small things I take note of,