Tree of Life Review

SEPTEMBER 2007

NEW IN THE TREE OF LIFE REVIEW

AIRMAIL: Bodhi Blues — A Year in India: Questioning The Maitreya Project by Jessica Falcone

COLUMN: Storiedmusic — The Night I Walked Out by DJ T’challah

NOVEL EXCERPT: In a State of Partition by Aneesha Capur

UP THE CREEK: Editor’s Notes — Art, Yoga, and Abu Ghraib



Map of Remembering

O the chimneys On the ingeniously devised habitations of death... Nelly Sachs, O the Chimneys

a voice tells me:
remember like a hunter’s moon

I answer —

my body is my map my geography
of all of you

my skin a few solar flares

my lips symbiotic stars
parted

my hand a dreamer’s light rising

from the charred wood door
to the sky

my daughter has your eyes

for Manacha


Amy Small-McKinney

Amy Small-McKinney

Amy Small-McKinney lives in Blue Bell, PA with her husband and daughter. In 2004, her chapbook, Body of Surrender, was published by Finishing Line Press and showcased, that same year, at Poet’s House in New York. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2004 and again in 2006. Her work has appeared, or will appear in forthcoming journals, including The Cortland Review, The Pedestal Magazine, ForPoetry, Elixir Press, Mad Poets Review, Schuykill Valley Journal of the Arts, upstreet, Umbrella, and wordsonwalls Literary Fresco. Small-McKinney was guest editor for the June 2006 issue of The Pedestal Magazine and interviewed Pulitzer Prize nominee poet, Bruce Smith, for their April 2006 issue. She has a Masters in Clinical Neuropsychology from Drexel University and makes her living as a group facilitator and counselor for families and children.

AMY SMALL-MCKINNEY IN THIS EDITION:
POEM: Map of Remembering