Meditation on a Row of Pines

If I were to choose a background
for our family photo
that crusty old stand of knobby knees
wouldn’t be it.

I’d put us in front of a graceful row
of Tuscan cypress
by an ancient marble fountain
wouldn’t I

Well, a stately receding row
of ancient oaks
with mown lawns and a pond of swans
would —

Those pines were old fifty years ago
dark, scarred, leaned by the wry west wind.
We stand on their sienna needles and cones.
Would you take the picture now, please?

NaPoWriMo

About riverwriter

Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else? wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/ Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.
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