(It’s important to never take yourself too seriously…Enjoy. Props to you if you can catch all the literary allusions)

the hardy maple

with its leafy tentacles

is a little twig that got bigger

the grass isn’t always hair

from uncut graves

it’s green and smells good

every hour is not metaphor

for the caged birds

occasionally refuse to  sing

the gum on the bottom

of my heel is a nuisance

not the spitted

image of  the Mona Lisa.