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...form of personified plants. These pieces are short enough that they can sustain themselves to the end, without the scarlet-hued melodrama of death or memory fading them. They are appropriately infused with sunlight by more lively color images. One of Edmunds' most vital poems, "Willows Coming Into Leaf," has haiku-like impact...
When using a voice of chronological distance Edmunds' words are impotent. In a short poem, appropriately titled, "Weathering," the persona speaks with regret to his lover, "Remember last August, my desire/dying down like roses from toothed leaf to bud." Yet later in the poem, the speaker insists to his lover, "I want you." At this point the reader may be tempted to respond, "I don't think so." But perhaps a fistfull of red-dirt and a few dead roses would more adequately convey her regrets in the poet's own language...
...Leaf of Protection...
...city of Boston also condemned Weld's plan. "The cumulative effect of this basically creates nothing more than a fig leaf of protection," said Howard Leibowitz, director of inter-governmental relations for Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino...
...same time, there's a chance that I'll turn over a new leaf and make my positive comments only positive...