Switched on Gutenberg: Volume 6 Issue No. 1

Switched-on Gutenberg Vol. 6, No. 1


Slow Growth Trees are slow you never see them grow until you go away growth marked by visits home it was only one walnut dropped into a fist-sized hole until you go away small never seems small and big always grander it was only one walnut dropped into a fist-sized hole an afterthought a reflection small never seems small and big always grander Remember who you are and you'll always be ahead an afterthought a reflection seen but not heard Remember who you are and you'll always be ahead I feel so far behind growing shade seen but not heard where is it I was heading? I feel so far behind growing shade gathering birthdays graduations weddings where is it I was heading and what was it I'm leaving? gathering birthdays graduations weddings jumbling four-feet-five and five-feet-four and what was it I'm leaving backwards in time my mind their mind? jumbling four-feet-five and five-feet-four life is fast you never see it passing backwards in time my mind their mind age marked by visits home where life is fast you never see it passing until it's past age marked by visits home where trees are slow you never see them grow.


Poem Copyright 2001, John Anderson	Windflowers Image Copyright 2001, Reva Sharon

John Anderson lives in Port Townsend, Washington. Slow Growth is a pantoum, with stanzas of four lines, of which the second and fourth lines of one stanza become the first and third lines of the next. The last stanza repeats lines from the first.	Reva Sharon won First Prize for Digital Photography in the Nagler International Photography Competition. Exhibitions include Into the land of the Seeing, at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California, Royal Photographic Society, Bath England; American Cultural Center, Jerusalem. Windflowers was previously published in Here on the Face of the Earth (Keter Press, 2001)