Acorn Margins
I’ve heard that oak will make a hedge
If planted it in a row,
But have you seen the sparrows fledge
Where catkins hang so low ?
Or acorns ring the meadow’s edge ?
Perhaps they’re just too slow ?
Or hedgers baulk at pruning oaklings back
To make a wall,
When ev’rything about them says ‘Don’t hack,
But grow me tall.’
So bushes have all bolted, down the track
Where branches sprawl.
