Sam Herschel Wein

In the university gardensfull of “native and nonnative” trees I come across a leafless bushwith twigs surrounding its branchy base, and there, the plaque painted over, in pencil but somehow formal, its new given name,“Butt Stuff Flower Bush,”and I think of the long historyof butt stuff and bushes, of husbands and sons who experience salacious …