APPLE TREES
And I love
the way these apple branches lie
On the path beside my son's house, right in front of
me, waiting for
My human touch to reach down, pick them up, make
something out of them
a wand or a plug for a broom
So I walk across the street to that abandoned house
Looking for something that might be salvaged
And this big mangy part-fire-point Tom cat jumps out
Of a ragged old motor boat and runs around the South
end of the house
I'm good with cats, I call him back, meeeooow,
arrrarrrar
I'm a wolf caller too, they always answer back, but
this
Guy is gone, he's real gone and that's when I spot
the cellar
It's caved in of course, and I can see the dark
coming from way back
I walk around another apple tree and look at the
tree house in it
It hasn't been abandoned for long
But the handicapped ramp behind the house has
So I go back across the street North
And meet my son coming out of his house, red-haired
in the sun only
Have you every been behind that abandoned old house
I ask?
Of course not mom, can't you see it's posted!
Together we cross the street, going South to look in
the dark cellar
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Connie Williams is a Cum Laude graduate of
Texas Womans University with a degree in Piano
Performance.
She received an M.A. in English Literature from
Angelo State University and is the winner of the
Texas
Creative Writing Teachers award for poetry and the
Sigma Tau Delta Poetry Competition first place
award.
She has been published in such journals as the "Concho
River Review," "Muse Squared," "Moon Crossed,"
"Lubbock Magazine," and "The Modern Primitive." Her
capbooks include, "Word of a Woman," "my mother's
bones," "Looking for Lilith," and "Zelda." A
performance poet, Williams has appeared at the Elmer
Kelton Writer's
Conference, The Langdon Review, Expressions, Texas
Tech University, and coffee houses and venues
across Texas. Retired from teaching, she resides in
Lamesa, Texas, and is President of the Board of
Directors
for Forrest Fest, an international annual
poetry festival held the last weekend of August.
Ms. Williams may be reached at
sagewoman@nctv.com
Her websites are
www.forrestfest.com and http://www.myspace.com/forrestfest
Her chapbooks may
be ordered from Sage Publishers, 301 North 19th
Street, Lamesa, Texas or by phone from 806/777-9864.
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