Lisa Brockwell #4 Cypresses

Cypresses

after Alice Oswald’s book of poems  Weeds and Wild Flowers

(with etchings by Jessica Greenman)

We are from the north of Italy

and like to let that be known.

We have excellent posture,

and well kept hair, if we had teeth,

they’d be good. We do our courting

at the ballet and will only stand

sentry at estates we deem worthy

of our attention.  When transplanted

somewhere beneath us, we fret

and lose volume, begin to lean.

You might hear us whisper:
No photographs, please.