Constance Wrzesniewski
Ant Tree

Certainly
a hybrid
a late bloomer
last to flash its
wispy green shoots
along its scrubby bark

Surely
a remnant
most undesirable
oddly shaped one trunk
upright the other elbowing out
at right angle close to verdant grass

Likely
A weed
grown wild unruly
tough strong resistant
to forces of nature we
dubbed this pinnacle of creation

"Ant Tree"
named for the
huge black invaders
that skitter along bare limbs
while it drowses through spring's
early pinks and whites outlasting the rest

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