World Poet Tree Day: Emily Dickinson

I’m
evergreen!
What are you?
Are you - evergreen - too?
Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell!
They’d chop us down you know!
O how dreary - to be - Deciduous!
How public! - A Tree of Fame! -
To lose one’s leaves -
and naked stand -
Oh,
I
would
die
for shame!

-Brian Bilston