Definition of a Tree: A Poem
when climbed, gives a view
of other trees, houses, the street
next door, and the next
Christine Hamm
Christine Hamm -- inkststesbitter@yahoo.com -- lives in Astoria, N.Y., and is a getting her Ph.D in English Literature at Drew University. Her work has been published in many journals, including the Adirondack Review, Pebble Lake Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, MiPoesias, Rattle, Snow Monkey, and the Absinthe Literary Review. Little Poem Press published her chapbook, The Salt Daughter, and another, The Animal Husband, came out from Dancing Girl Press in April of this year. Her full-length book; The Transparent Dinner, is due out from Mayapple Press in the fall. She is on the editorial board of several literary journals, including Vernacular. She teaches literature at the College of New Rochelle and poetry writing at Women's Studio Center in Queens, N.Y.