A Necropolis is a mere depository for dead bodies,” Douglass wrote. “Green-Wood,” on the other hand, implied “verdure, shade, ...

A beloved dead tree at Lodhi Garden has finally fallen, marking the end of an iconic landmark cherished by visitors and ...

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, writes David L. Harrison.

Share your story with Isabella. After repeated calls for action and concern from neighbors, Kansas City, Missouri, has removed a dead tree in front of a midtown condo complex. Residents contacted ...

TURNER WAS DRIVING SOUTH ON I-85, THEN WENT LEFT, CROSSED THE MEDIAN AND STRUCK A TREE ON THE NORTHBOUND SIDE. TH The Greenville County Coroner says one person is dead after hitting a tree in a ...

This short but powerful set of verses comes from The Egyptian Book of the Dead ... A tree is something in me, Very still and lonely now. Born in 1902, Arna Bontemps had this short poem selected ...

Be he alive or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my ... a kite caught in a tree. Poems don’t have to be about big, complicated things. But they can be. I’ve written about a friend ...

When no signs of life were left, university officials took the “last resort” and decided to remove the dead tree on May 4, setting aside pieces of its wood to memorialize the tree through artwork.

Rich Hein/Sun-Times file photo Share Chicago taxpayers will spend $3.5 million to compensate a man who suffered a traumatic brain injury when a dead tree neglected by the city fell and hit him on ...