By Maryam Barrie

Maryam Barrie lives in an oak and hickory wood outside Ann Arbor, Michigan. Married with two grown daughters, she teaches at Washtenaw Community College, and her favorite authors these days are Lucia Berlin and Jane Kenyon.
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LEAVING HUMBOLDT REDWOODS STATE PARK

  LEAVING HUMBOLDT REDWOODS STATE PARK   Now, the Michigan trees are too small. I long for the low hum of those long lives, with their enormous thirst for the cool mists off the ocean, and the calm I felt even as the dark waters rose, threatening to pull me down. My beloved joined me…