A Tree With No Name - Diane Jackman 1 Apr Written By Andrew Stuck One of the Top 40 submissions in our 2023 Urban Tree Festival writing competition. A Tree With No Name “You were always noticedeven if no one knew your name. Exiled in a corner of the car park cut off from the detached landscape, sole survivor in the county.Travelling from Iran to Francebefore the Revolution:did some émigré smuggle a cutting from his arboretum, memoryof lost home, lost friends, lost fortune?Your size and strength piqued interest. Your hanging racemes shed delight. What is that tree? asked visitors.In your beauty and mysteryyou kept your secret well.Came the day we read the news spreading across the local press.This dangerous tree which must be felled.Caucasian wing-nut tree,Too late, a name to offer visitors.But they will appreciate two extra parking spaces.” Diane Jackman Diane Jackman’s poetry speaks of landscape and the effect of the past on the present. Her collection Lessons from the Orchard was published recently. Andrew Stuck
A Tree With No Name - Diane Jackman 1 Apr Written By Andrew Stuck One of the Top 40 submissions in our 2023 Urban Tree Festival writing competition. A Tree With No Name “You were always noticedeven if no one knew your name. Exiled in a corner of the car park cut off from the detached landscape, sole survivor in the county.Travelling from Iran to Francebefore the Revolution:did some émigré smuggle a cutting from his arboretum, memoryof lost home, lost friends, lost fortune?Your size and strength piqued interest. Your hanging racemes shed delight. What is that tree? asked visitors.In your beauty and mysteryyou kept your secret well.Came the day we read the news spreading across the local press.This dangerous tree which must be felled.Caucasian wing-nut tree,Too late, a name to offer visitors.But they will appreciate two extra parking spaces.” Diane Jackman Diane Jackman’s poetry speaks of landscape and the effect of the past on the present. Her collection Lessons from the Orchard was published recently. Andrew Stuck