2009 Edition - Ramapo College of New Jersey

Trillium 2009
Origami
Melissa Adamo
You know me like your favorite book,
open and laying flat on its spine.
Paper trees grow from it,
rooted to the page in ink blots
from old stories of unfamiliar people.
We sprinkle water over,
but drops crumple and morph
the tree, roots, the whole book.
Now damp like a newspaper,
littered in the street
during thunder showers
with some blurred headline
no one remembers.
A tree grew from soil,
housing dead bodies.
The leaves went through life
of green, red, brown, void.
Chopped down to create
some art, laughing at its form.
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