Robert Américo Esnard was born and raised in the Bronx, NY. He studied Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Dartmouth College. His work has been published by or is forthcoming in Bat City Review, Cutbank, Michigan Quarterly Review, New York Quarterly, and many more journals and anthologies. He is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet.

POETRY

Dendrochronology of a Family Tree

By ROBERT AMéRICO ESNARD

new growth in trees comes from the outer-most layer, living cambium.