lone bush on the drive

the lone bush is unheeded 
in a small parking lot 
on busy commercial drive

its slow growth unimpeded 
for another year alone 
against the bright pink wall

reaching higher undeterred 
into the next year on and
up towards the summer sun

it will survive undisturbed 
for one more year to shape
itself into an elegant stance

then in the last year, an unhindered hand lopped it down to size,
stifling its natural growth and free organic will...

at least it belongs to no one, 

but for an occasional passerby drawn to the simple contrast of 
a lone green bush leaning against a pink brick wall on any sunny day



"An anti-master man, floribund ascetic."

Wallace Stevens
(from "Landscape with Boat", 1942)