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Julian Peters’ Illustrated “Birches” by Robert Frost

by Vanderleun on June 27, 2018

Comics adaptation of “Birches” by Robert Frost | julian peters comics

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BillH June 27, 2018, 9:24 AM

Yeah, I was a Swinger of Birches, and anything else that was climbable when I was 7-8 or so. Then a branch broke, I came down fast and hard and broke my left elbow in two places, Spent all summer in a cast, and when the cast came off I couldn’t move the elbow. Took another month or two to get it loose enough to use. That’s when I learned to climb only when necessary, and then to first check the stability and weight bearing capacity of whatever I was going to climb. That was 80 years ago, and have yet to break another bone.

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Bob Sykes June 27, 2018, 4:00 PM

Birches grow wild in clumps in rural NE MA, and I, too, swung on them. But I was lucky. I fell off a bending trunk more than once, but never got anything other than bruises and scrapes. Great fun if you are young and small.

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