Poems

The author returns thanks for permission to use in this collection of her poems, those which have appeared in Poetry, Vanity Fair and the Wheels Anthology.
HEAD OF IRIS TREE By Jacob Epstein
Poems by Iris Tree
Decorations by Curtis Moffat
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You preach to me of laws, you tie my limbs
With rights and wrongs and arguments of good,
You choke my songs and fill my mouth with hymns,
You stop my heart and turn it into wood.