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| Issue 24: | 30 Aug. 2024 |
| Poem: | 53 words |
| + Visual Art: | Photograph |
Photograph by Per Harald Olsen
Poem by Gary S. Rosin
Weeping Willow
No wings to follow pollen as it flies, drifts off in the wind, this is not a bird, but only a shell, caught in the weeping. Empty of purpose, it waits to fall, hopes it will land face up, a cup to catch tears.
—After the photograph by Per Harald Olsen:
Sørgepil i pollentiden (Weeping willow in pollen season)
Photograph copyrighted © by Norwegian photographer
Per Harald Olsen. All rights reserved.*
*Publisher’s Note:
Image above is reproduced from Per Harald Olsen’s Facebook page (post date: 21 April 2024), and appears here with his permission.
(See also earlier posting on 22 March 2015 “Sørgepil (Salix x sepulcralis eller Salix alba x pentandra), engelsk weeping willow...”)
For more of Olsen’s photography, see his Facebook albums.
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