Arborcide

Caroline Giles Banks – Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Mother maples, and their promised seedlings and saplings, filter pollutants from the air.

Printed on paper—trees’ shrouds—The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Forest Service will terminate a $75 million dollar grant allocated to replace hundreds of thousands of trees lost to Hurricane Katrina, many in an historically Black community in New Orleans. By Executive Order, environmental justice initiatives that assure a percentage of climate investments go to disadvantaged communities “no longer meet government priorities.”

agnostic buzz saws pulp 
Latin<—-> English primers
DEI<—->GODS

The Last Oak Leaf: Haiku, Senryu and Haibun Poems, Caroline Giles Banks. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Wellington-Giles Press, 2025.

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