A charm for ash (Fraxinus spp.)


Deepening leaf-green: spring sun climbing summerald,
Causing sugars, calling out sugars, strengthening,
Pulling water, sipped from soil, up-and-overald,
Deepening leaf-green.

Seepen, sapwood, goldentire, emergenerald,
Groundwatern, leavy, windition, growind, treen,
Brighternally, spressively, nutrientire, goldenerald.

Shimmer, shake, outshine, new stems extenerald;
Rain from crown down bark to roots’ beginning;
Opposite, live, inevitable—attenerald—
Deepening leaf-green.