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| Anonymous Photographer Hoarfrost on Trees, viewed from Terrace ca. 1870-80 albumen print Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| John Constable Study of Ash Trees 1817 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous Artist Study of Tree 18th century drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Photographer Tree ca. 1850-60 salted paper print Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Anonymous Photographer Cedars of Lebanon ca. 1870-80 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Study of Trees before 1680 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Group of Trees ca. 1675-80 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Edward Hassell Fir Trees, North End, Hampstead before 1852 lithograph Yale Center for British Art |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II Study of Tree Trunk ca. 1598-1608 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Crescenzio Onofri Group of Trees before 1698 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| John Golden Short Trees ca. 1870-80 albumen print Yale Center for British Art |
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| J.W. Lindt Lindt's Bent Tree 1890 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Jan Lievens Study of Tree Trunk ca. 1660-70 drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous Artist Study of Tree 17th century drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Fritz Eichenberg Heathcliffe under a Tree 1943 wood-engraving (illustration to Wuthering Heights) Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Wilhelm von Gloeden Youth in Tree ca. 1885-1905 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Los Angeles / Boys
Two of them
with chests like blond silk
cornsilk hair
stalled in traffic
in the awful heat
they smiled
were they messengers
delivering through the open window
promises or lies or invitations?
Boys are everywhere
at noon they glide
between parched cars
bare broad shoulders
color of chestnut colts
in the poison dusk
they catch falling stars
in their silly mouths
for girls, for each other
their teeth gleam reflections
off blue rayon
this town
as large as it is
has one shimmering boy
in all the cars
and in every phone booth.
– Rachel Sherwood (killed by a car at age 25 in 1979)