Amy Takabori

AMY TAKABORI {[email protected]} has a BA in English from BYU and an MA in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English from the University of Arizona. She is continually stunned by the watercolor sunsets of the Arizona desert, though she sometimes misses living in the Tokyo bustle and in the verdant Garden State.

The “Blackblue Heartguts” of Trees | Brooke Larson, Pleasing Tree.

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 4

Brooke Larson is a tree hugger—literally. 

She hugs a female gingko in Central Park after pissing at its base. This reminds her of a tree she once hugged in Jerusalem. She walks tree to tree down sidewalks in Salt Lake City.

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