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‘Their giddy arrival’

Apple tree in blossom

“I might have stayed in this world

forever without seeing them,

or feeling their giddy

arrival in my skin….”

—From “Flowering Tree,’’ by Nora Mitchell (born 1956), Vermont-based poet and teacher

Here’s the whole poem.

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