Mulberry

It feels like wisdom, Ada Limón
Suggested, to not care about
Power; to interfere with power

Means the protectors of power will
Send joking minions to cut you down.
This was all about a mulberry

That she had by her fence, that threatened
An overhead power line. No more.
So much for wisdom’s meditations

About ownership and power, jobs,
Jokes, who’s in the house, who’s in the yard,
Who is who, what is what, fruitlessness.

It’s a good poem. The mulberry tree
Will never read it, is one more stump
Under a fine poet’s power line.