The Overstory by Richard Powers, briefly reviewed by Carole Withanee

It is a large tome, almost 600 pages

The words entwined like leaves

in a tropical forest canopy.

They writhe and squirm around each other like jungle vines

crawling

along the ground and climbing up the trunks of trees

until they suffocate the words.

And then I cannot see the story for the trees.

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Carole Withanee lives in the Toronto area and has been honing her skills as both a fiction writer and a poet for the past several years. Her inspiration comes from things she encounters anytime and anywhere. 

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