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WHITE ASH
Fraxinus americana
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinus_americana

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There is a woman on Michigan Boulevard keeps a parrot and goldfish and two white mice.

She used to keep a houseful of girls in kimonos and three pushbuttons on the front door.

Now she is alone with a parrot and goldfish and two white mice… but these are some of her thoughts:

The love of a soldier on furlough or a sailor on shore leave burns with a bonfire red and saffron.

The love of an emigrant workman whose wife is a thousand miles away burns with a blue smoke.

The love of a young man whose sweetheart married an older man for money burns with a sputtering uncertain flame.

And there is a love… one in a thousand… burns clean and is gone leaving a white ash….

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from The Shape of Trunk to Come, released October 20, 2020
Written by Carl Sandburg
Originally on The Poetry of Carl Sandburg (1962, Caedmon Records)

Leaf picture from The North American Sylva atlas by François André Michaux. Free version of the book (from 1819) can be downloaded for free here: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/42243#/summary

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Aging dudes who could just be drinking beer after work. But somehow music for the jukebox of their lives is being made in the process. Is it magic?

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