{"id":1119,"date":"2012-01-03T01:38:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T01:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2012-01-03T01:38:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T01:38:13","slug":"paper-birches-by-glen-sorestad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/paper-birches-by-glen-sorestad\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Birches by Glen Sorestad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paper Birches<\/h1>\n

by Glen Sorestad<\/p>\n

The clump birches
\nbeside the lakeshore
\nare slowly peeling off
\ntheir papery attire
\nlike well-practised
\nlovers intent
\non sustaining that
\ndelicate tension
\nbetween fantasy
\nand reality.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

Glen Sorestad is a much published poet with over 20 books of poems. His poems have been translated into a half-dozen languages and have appeared in scores of literary magazines, over 50 anthologies and textbooks, and on numerous literary websites. Sorestad lives in Saskatoon on the Canadian prairies. His latest book of poems, A Thief of Impeccable Taste<\/em><\/strong>, is a bilingual, English\/Spanish volume published by Sand Crab Books(2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paper Birches by Glen Sorestad The clump birches beside the lakeshore are slowly peeling off their papery attire like well-practised lovers intent on sustaining that delicate tension between fantasy and reality. ### Glen Sorestad is a much published poet with over 20 books of poems. His poems have been translated into a half-dozen languages and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-123"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t