Les Enfants Terribles

The wishing tree

Kathleen Jamie

The wishing tree, Kathleen Jamie

I stand neither in the wilderness
not fairyland,

but in the fold
of a green hill,

the tilt from one parish
into another.

To look at me
through a smirr of rain

is to taste the iron
in your own blood;

because I bear
the common currency

of longing each wish.

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