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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Submission of the month

Misty firs

By Mike Aspros
The Portland Upside
January 2010

Photo by Sandra Milner

In winter, fir trees sing dappling droplets
their pointed needles combed them from fog.
You must only listen as a hundred notes
drop and echo, hitting the paper leaves.
Songs of forgotten words,
you know that they are prayers
that only trees remember
and they tell it to you again.

Mike Aspros is a native of Portland. In addition to writing poetry, he enjoys co-facilitating events within Linnton’s environmental group, and preserving Forest Park while building a community of forest stewardship.

Sandra Milner is a novelist, poet, aspiring photographer, and also a freelance journalist and food advocate.

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