Episode #12 of Just a Girl Under a 🌲 Tree, Reading a 📖 and Asking it to Love💗 Her
Today, my daughter Mayleah and I returned to the same special tree from Episode #9—the one we thought might be cut down, but wasn’t—an unexpected gift that still greets us every time we walk into the forest.
I brought The Rain in the Trees by W.S. Merwin, a signed first edition that feels like a small treasure. I asked Mayleah to be gentle with the pages, as it’s the latest posting here at Ash Tree Books and a very special book. She chose a poem at random: ‘Late Spring.’
This short piece begins, “Coming into the high room again after years…” — and while the poem drifts into memory and presence, I couldn’t help but smile. Reading it under our “still-standing” tree with Mayleah beside me, the breeze seemed to turn the pages just right, as if the forest wanted to listen too.
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You can find the signed first edition of The Rain in the Trees here:
W.S. Merwin — The Rain in the Trees — Signed First Edition (1988)
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