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MICHAEL S. GLASER is the current poet-laureate of Maryland and serves as poet-in-the- chools for the Maryland State Arts Council. He is the author of A Lover’s Eye (The Bunny & Crocodile Press), and In the Men’s Room and Other Poems which was the winner of the 1996 Painted Bride Quarterly chapbook competition. His most recent collection of poems, Being a Father, was published in July 2004. Dr. Glaser teaches at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He read at CSM as part of the Connections Literary Series.

The Presence of Trees

I have always felt the living presence
of trees

the forest that calls to me as deeply
as I breathe,

as though the woods were marrow of my bone
as though

I myself were tree, a breathing, reaching
arc of the larger canopy

beside a brook bubbling to foam
like the one

deep in these woods,
that calls

that whispers home.