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Stanley H. Barkan, Kyung-Nyun Kim Richards

FOR STANLEY ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 50 YEARS OF CCC by Kyung-Nyun Kim Richards

11 Giugno 2025

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Stanley H. Barkan (source: Wikipedia)

Stanley H. Barkan (source: Wikipedia)

FOR STANLEY ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 50 YEARS OF CCC

Kyung-Nyun Kim Richards

If we were to compare him to a tree,

Stanley would be an oak.

Not a tall poplar or redwood,

nor a pine with sharp needles instead of leaves,

not even a red maple or a blossoming cherry

but a solid roundish oak with bushy branches

where squirrels scurry up and down all day

to forage at the tips of the branches,

menacing crows squawk

at the small birds to scare them away,

friendly brown towhees gather about in pairs,

and humming birds hover around the dish of red sugar water

that is hung on the lowest branch like a little lantern.

The oak is strong and hardy. Breezes pass through it but rarely show.

Sometimes an oak stands alone on a dry golden hill

and makes you wonder if there is vein of water somewhere nearby.

Squirrels do seem to have a longer view than we have because

they plant their acorns in the ground and the oak does grow deep roots.

Our most loyal friend, poet, and bookmaker,

that oak of a man: Stanley.

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