Vinni Marie D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.

Poet/Scholar

by Vinni Marie D'Ambrosio, inscribed on the Rothenberg Memorial Monument, New York City; sculptor: Madeline Segall-Marx

Copper Beech

on the death of a colleague

 

 

 

Somewhere was where he went.

 

Now when the campus is thick with summer,

the copper beech

will show the small spaces

 

among its leaves

as clearly empty places.

 

And soon in winter

ever a larger

 

airy emptiness

 

will whirl

through the tines of its branches.

 

Then we'll turn our eyes away -

so hard it is to witness

 

the tree weeping twigs

as we lament.

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