Tree rings count the cross cut ages
All the old timers
Say
They
remember when
I've personally watched both Freedom & Independence
Drive & Boulevard (respectively)
Spread in that ugly, flabby way
Now I am positioned to witness
Mallard Creek become an auto-doped
Thoroughfare for 'big 'uns'
With incredibly poor lines of sight
Six lanes across
It's the number of man
Planning the next on-ramp
Not one headline
About all the oaks felled
Where the rubber hits the road
One lone photog out there
Snapping, snapping at the scene
Of a multiple arboracide
Smooth jazz aficionados
Slow to stop - wondering
What's that crazy white boy
Doin' out there?
Most of the modern science
Has come to believe
There is a master plan in effect
To the creation of all flora and fauna
Every component effects (re: impacts)
Every living sector of this beautiful world
We were given to inhabit
To celebrate
To love and nurture
IT'S IN OUR NATURE!
I walked out on the red clay
Underneath westward fleeting lion's sun
Found the construction silenced for Sunday
Hitachi at rest
Found one red & and yellow 12oz
Empty and face down
Under swirling stripes of cirrus
Found a hard, traveling (insect)
Found a fellow documentarian
We talked for a moment
,as cars rolled past,
Time continued to march
