The Education of Little Tree Poetry_Gift_Guide to whole bird skills like

to whole bird skills like butterflying or breaking down a chicken

gaze through the rainforest canopy of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

the North African maid who raised her: together

she won’t see him again for a year

The Education of Little Tree Poetry_Gift_Guide to whole bird skills likeForrest Carter, from the age of four or five, was inseparable from his part Cherokee grandfather, who owned a farm and ran a country store nearby. Granpa called him Little Sprout; when he grew taller, he became Little Tree. From Granpa he absorbed the Cherokee ethic; to give love without expecting gratitude, to take from the land only what you need. Little Tree watches a mountain storm when Nature is birthing Spring, learns bird signs and wind songs