Parkland - Lisa Shulman

[Larry Robinson]

Parkland

 

Consider the red-boned manzanita

for years its seeds patient

buried beneath parent shade

until acres of trees blazed 

bright on sway-backed hills

then fell like dark snow—

a blanket of blackened ash.

 

But that heat released the sleeping seeds

cracked open tight seed coats, awoke

a generation to germination

now stretching down sturdy roots 

now pushing up strong shoots 

green arms breaking through 

burnt and crusted soil—

now a bright reminder

of what youth can do


	- Lisa Shulman
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