Ki (Tree): A Poem by Tamiko Dooley

Girl looking at trees in Japan
Photo by Atsuo Shimada on Unsplash

Ki (Tree)

my grandmother tells a story from
when she was little: at the end of her garden in
nakano was a yuzu tree if you plucked the yellow
citrus you would pull on the hair of kazuko
the girl buried under the
roots and her screams
would
tear at
your
ears

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