Leaves

Non-seasonal growth,
including the ludic
branches that clutch
the canopy's light breeze--
no beach so fierce!
Or on top
of the cobblestones
the picture
of a beach, after
naming the streets
for the days of the week
we did trees, birds
Manitoba college towns
and then ran out so
started right in
on the spawn of
the local bauxite
aristocracy, so its
possible to awake
with a familiar name
pressed into your cheek--
something to fool
the eloi archaeologists!
presuming they can cut
through the giant hedge
of modified alder
that threatens Edwardian
apocalypse to these
pretty but blandly
peopled avenues.