Three Gravestones . . .
SHAME: Part of the vast ongoing massacre of old deciduous trees falling to the saw in Riverside and Van Cortlandt Park this season. (NYC Spring 2016)
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Better views demand now.
Immigrants turned “invasive!”
Old trees around cut down
By naturalized non- natives?
Cattails: Spring Gone To Seed (NYC 2016)
II.
Passing, cattail flowers seed,
Parachute lives, each on its own,
Scattered, carried, by the wind
Betting to reach free ground.
Willow (NYC 2016)
III.
Green, again,
Gone the limber down.
Bead chains of brightest green
Drape over rain swelled brown.
– rPs 04 18 2016
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Postscript: April is National Poetry Month. Enjoy.
https://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/home
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Report Illegal Tree Cutting in NYC here:
http://www.nycgovparks.org/services/forestry/illegal-tree-work
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in memory of Robert L. Bogaski, Jr. (1949-2016) . . .
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