Green

Green

I

When the image is only green
bright green
leaping from a lawn
eyes focusing
zooming in on only green
the mind seeks surety
seeks comfort
that the spring
or summer
is giving back
the life, the rejuvination.

II

Spare me the sermons about the long green
the evil root
the large ones
paid in alleys or to parked cars, still running.
The faded ugly green
the ruining rectangles we weave
by billions
yet most have few
some have none
and others hoard
in square steel silos
unwilling to give others
a grain of truth.