Live Oak

" Live Oak "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

for The Dubowski's
aka The House of Oak Family...


Live oak
sturdy
two-to-five
inch leaves

dark acorns
sandy lowlands
salt air
" Lawdy! "
" Glory Be! "

shaggy rampant
moss canopies
glamorously
festooned branches
leathery waxy
broken glass
live-oak decline

fluffy pool slides
reaching rather-
chic heights
being likened
to playful new
arrivals and
" Why Not?! "

as holey
as Swiss cheese
bubbly little things
courtesy of spring

coveted lovey-dovey prints
spouting, " Just browsing! "
yet thinkin' 'bout gettin' down
in button downs going all out
" Far out, man, far out! "...