Title Unknown, Sharon Yoswig

A Truth Revealed
in a Dream

This elegy for oaks is early

But the way of the world

Is that Griffin Woods will be sold,

The ancient trees sawed down,

The land stripped for a strip mall.

Acorns will rot under asphalt

And whose fault is it?

Clearly, the trees.

They don’t pay taxes.

                    

Lola Lucas