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Eucalyptus Bending

Eucalyptus bending
southward, angled
by sundowner winds,

you point
over the top of last
December’s spot fire,

saying,
I just knew
this would happen.

Photo by Ghiffari Haris on Unsplash

Paul J. Willis

Paul Willis is the author eight collections of poetry as well as a YA Elizabethan time-travel novel, All in a Garden Green (Slant, 2020) and the essay collection To Build a Trail (WordFarm, 2018). His most recent collection, Losing Streak (Kelsay Books, 2024),  is mostly light verse. He is an emeritus professor of English at Westmont College and a former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California. His website is www.pauljwillis.com.  

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