Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Ode to the Oak, the Garden Oak

New oak leaves beginning their stretch 

in the first light of true day

with blushing tips

clusters like ferns

they assert themselves as crowns of the garden

kingly oak

less common in the corridor of cottonwoods 

marking the riparian borders 

imagine its long arms shielding the rhododendron 

mimosa grateful for dappled sunlight

hung with bird houses for traveling finches

light drenched canopy 

coming into mightiness


#NaPoWriMo

#mightyoak

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