WORLD VOICES
AN INTERNATIONAL CHAPBOOK SERIES OF PROSE & POETRY
BY NEW AND ESTABLISHED WRITERS

EDITED BY WALTER CUMMINS & THOMAS E. KENNEDY

Contents

Introduction
About the Author
Mammals
Truth
The Christmas Journey
Silence
Passed My Hearing Test
Wetland
Quis Est?
From a Bestiary
Autumn
Two Sonnets for Alex
Hamlet Contemplates the
   Skull of Gabriel Edmund,
   Recently Born

Seeing My Son
Holding
Sailing to Kansas
Winter Trees

World Voices Home

The Literary Explorer
Writers on the Job
Books Forgotten
Thomas E. Kennedy
Walter Cummins
Web Del Sol



WINTER TREES
and Other Poems






Poems by

William Zander

In summer, a forest is full and thick. In winter, you can see clear through
the trees. Unfortunately, that's what your brain looks like with age.


— Dr. Gary Lynch, a neuroscientist
at the University of California at Irvine