Grey Poplar

        tiny beads up P. canescens
    offbeat sixties satire     bigboned daughter
        rivet black on purling
            smooth eye fountain.

        puff vault rolls wrens
    inspires wool     roll along water
        render belt black sterling
            line kernel town tin.

        drew up in shadow a lens
    cabbage-heart hire     wanted it shorter
        days sanderling Girling
            studded account in.

        wait while I drop it over Ben’s
    grey sleeking upward     paste in mortar
        smoke in its catkin curling
            a bloom in mountain.