Poetry
The Judas-Tree
By Gilad Jaffe
The blossoms appear before
the leaves. Out of certain silver
springs muscle white blossoms
into red. Here comes pink. Red
defends itself against the field
of past mistakes. Infectors, diseases,
solutions. Once a winner, the winner
cannot cease to be a winner. Still
red remembers white, makes pink.
Gilad Jaffe’s poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, TriQuarterly, and The Yale Review, among others. An assistant editor at Conjunctions, he teaches at the University of Iowa.
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