The Poet and the Palm Tree – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder

The poet W.S. Merwin spent the last four decades of his life on
Maui, restoring a plot of abandoned land that would become one of
the most diverse and expansive palm tree gardens in the world. In
this essay, staff writer Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder visits these
lush nineteen acres, now home to more than 3,000 palm trees and
more than 400 unique species. Merwin wrote poetry in the morning
and spent his afternoons planting and tending to trees. His poems
are living witness to the care he offered to this land.
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-poet-and-the-palm-tree/
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