Abstract
Roots Matthew Ulland (bio) Improbable—how the family treereached to me—single leaf wagging its gossipy tonguein the scented spring breeze. What lies beneath spreads— not personal only but rootssearching down and back. The sediment of history.The muddy dark. Information drawn up like saptoward the edifying light. I like the thought.It’s less lonely—me not only me but a jumble of dreams,displacements, desires, and hope. My fingers stretch like spring shoots trying to grasp what light I canwhile sunlight turns the sugars green. [End Page 165] Matthew Ulland Matthew Ulland’s poems, stories, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in MiPResias, Illuminations, the Inquisitive Eater: New School Food, Coe Review, Meadowland Review, Border Crossing, LIT, caesura, Hanging Loose, Rusty Nail, and other journals. He is the author of the chapbook The Sound in the Corn and the novel The Broken World. Copyright © 2015 University of Nebraska Press
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