Complexities Of Annette House’s profession is nursing, a career providing “fertile ground” for writing. While her calling as a poet has been more recent, she is an avid reader who began reading poetry in high school under the influence of a teacher who ignited her love of language. Annette credits “extraordinary” OLLI teachers for her venture into writing verse and, while her early poems were simpler, her poetry has become more dense and dark, its layers expressing life’s pathos.
Arboreal Music Among the quiet cherry trees in Washington is an indicator tree its heralding of perfected blooms tells us when to come to the capital
we watched and heeded or not our secrets and lies were born on the breezes that ruffled her supple limbs
we wish we had seen the intricacies of her petals the exquisite design of her leaves the durability of her bark
mysteries of light and rooted wisdom my mother transformed her maternal was such an splendor into images indicator tree we wish we had of delicacy or frailty heard the complexities we watched her we knew she was of her arboreal music carefully, in silence as old as the as it sang through her for signs of earth itself as it struggled fortuitous greenings that she mourned or hints of withering to warn us of for the seasons what was to come of bloom she without words she would not bring forth spoke to us of ANNETTE M HOUSE wind and cloud of solar flare