Best Trees for Property Borders

By Susan Barry-Schulz

It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!

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An unruly row of forsythia / barbed wire/ a brick wall / those orange and white barrels in construction zones / chicken wire / a split-rail fence / a split-rail fence with chicken wire / a picket fence /a chain link fence / a thick chain drawn across a driveway / invisible fence /  electric fence /wrought iron / railroad ties / shadowbox / cinderblocks / stockade /rock walls / lattice work / firewalls / the sound barrier / the great barrier reef / the thin screen to which the stink bugs cling / an even line of Italian Cypress / the phospholipid bilayer membrane of the human 
cell—
so many ways we won’t be kept
from one another. 

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Susan Barry-Schulz grew up just outside of Buffalo, New York. She is a licensed physical therapist living with chronic illness. Her poetry has appeared in SWWIM Every Day, Barrelhouse online, Rogue Agent, New Verse News, Nightingale & Sparrow, Shooter Literary Magazine, The Wild Word, Bending Genres, B O D Y, Gyroscope Review, Feral, Moist Poetry Journal, Moot Point Magazine, Iron Horse Literary Review, West Trestle Review, One Art, and in many other print and online journals and anthologies.

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