title: From the Limbs of a Pear Tree
author: David Spicer
description: David Spicer has had poems accepted or published by Third Wednesday, Reed Magazine, Slim Volume, The New Verse News, Poppy Road Review, Alcatraz, Chiron Review, Easy Street, Midnight Lane Boutique, Dead Snakes, Ploughshares, Gargoyle, The American Poetry Review, among others, and in the anthologies Silent Voices: Recent American Poems on Nature (Ally Press, 1978), Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing From Homer to Ali (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003), and A Galaxy of Starfish: An Anthology of Modern Surrealism (Salo Press, 2016). He has been nominated for a Best of the Net three times, a Pushcart once, and is the author of one full-length collection of poems, Everybody Has a Story (St. Luke's Press, 1987), and four chapbooks. The former editor of Raccoon, Outlaw, and Ion Books, he lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
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  by Alessandra Torre
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2018 by Alessandra Torre
  
  
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  Digital ISBN: 978-0-9997841-6-7
  
  
  Print ISBN: 978-0-9997841-7-4
  
  
  Editing: Marion Archer
  
  
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  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0003.html#2RHM0-618922dce5c84f5084b9c9a4ba9443a5)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0004.html#3Q280-618922dce5c84f5084b9c9a4ba9443a5)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0005.html#4OIQ0-618922dce5c84f5084