<p>From the very first page Shaking the Trees meets you at the edge of the forest, extends a limb &amp; seduces you into taking a walk through the dark &amp; light of connection. Suddenly, like a gunshot in the very-near distance, you find yourself traipsing though a full-blown love story that you can't find your way out of because the story is actually the landscape underneath your feet. It's okay though, you won't get lost– you won't go hungry. Azra shakes every tree along the way so their fruit blankets the ground before you. She picks up pieces &amp; hands them to you but not before she shows you how she can love you so gently it will feel like she's unpeeling you carefully from yourself. She tells you that it isn't about the bite but the warm juice that slips from the lips down chin. She holds your hand when you're trudging through the messier parts, shoes getting stuck in the muck of it all, but you'll keep going with the pulp of the fruit still stuck in-between your teeth, the juice will dry in the crooks of your elbows &amp; in the lines on your palms. You'll taste bittersweet for days.</p>

Shaking the Trees

Literature & Fiction

Tabassum, Azra

Poetry

Words Dance Publishing

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Shaking the Trees