bare branches is Book 104 in the cherita series of storytelling books. The Cherita genre was created by ai li on the 22 June 1997. It consists of three stanzas of 1 - 2 - 3 lines and it tells a story. Book 104 showcases 90 fine cherita and cherita terbalik from writers and poets who hail from UK, USA, Singapore, India, Germany and Canada. cherita terbalik continues to capture the imagination of poets and there are again fine examples in this edition. Featured Poets as they appear in this anthology :- C. X. Turner/ ai li/ Ceri Marriott/ Nicholas Gentile/ Teri Messmer/ Barry J. Vitcov/ Taura Scott/ Patricia Allen Smith/ Kathabela Wilson/ Larry Kimmel/ Sharon Hawley/ Adelaide B. Shaw/ Roy Kindelberger/ Partha Sarkar/ Tim Callahan/ James Haddad/ Eva Joan/ Pauline Dutton/ Roger Funston/ Liz Goetz/ Dennis Owen Frohlich/ Jan Stretch/ Daniel W. Brown/ Diane Funston/ Pitt Büerken/ Sigrid Saradunn/ Lakshman Bulusu/ The book has been edited to be experienced two ways. It can be read as a storybook and as an anthology of individual poems. The entire book also has one poem to a page to allow the author's words to breathe. Six sample Cherita from this anthology :- wedding picture taken from the wall left behind the nail— and its shadow Nicholas Gentile * morning silence between winter and spring Barry J. Vitcov * you in the doorway bringing me coffee when I wake from a nap so real it seams I don’t know if it’s a dream or my imagination Adelaide B. Shaw * dream sweet dreams Venus and Mars together in the sky Eva Joan * twilight stillness the lake’s surface tightens around the light something below stirs C. X. Turner * the way home grows longer each year age spots on my mirror ai li * The cherita lighthouse has been awarded to the following writers and poets in this edition for their timeless cherita :- Ceri Marriott/ Taura Scott/ Teri Messmer/ Partha Sarkar/ Dennis Owen Frohlich/ C. X. Turner/ Nicholas Gentile/ ai li is the editor and publisher of the cherita, gembun, dua and ta da anthologies . She is an internationally published Haiku, Tanka, Cherita, Gembun, Dua and Ta Da poet and the founding editor and publisher of still, moving into breath and dew-on-line. N.B. Please be aware that all Kindle versions now match the paperback versions and do not contain any colour images.