More In Memory of the Urban Forester

My friend, former Miami University English Professor and "Poet in Residence" Jim Reiss, penned the following in tribute to Steve Sandfort:


ELEGY FOR "MR. TREE," THE URBAN FORESTER

(In Memoriam: Steve Sandfort)

If he now lies lifeless,
he fell in a faraway place
where we could not hear him
so he has not vanished but still
speaks out on programs, dispensing
his free advice about trees

on our radio station that lasted
as long as his sixty-sixth year,
then somehow got caught in a storm
but lives on in digital archives,
in his words about buckeyes and elms
meeting spring in a thousand green glades.