This poem is taken from Stand 224, 17(4) December 2019 - February 2020.

Marty Newman Five Poems
A Wayfarer’s Guide
    for my father

1.

Topolyas never live past 50, you’d say.
Fastigate, columnar from growing so close,
the poplar from which the wind carved our faces
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