Jacarandas Poem by gershon hepner

Jacarandas

Some people do not like the jacarandas
because their blossoms fall
on cars, their windshields, roofs and fenders,
and so these people call
these trees a nuisance, do not love the way
they turn the world to mauve
for three weeks in the year while they display
a canopy that's chauv-
inistic from the point of view of those
who deprecate such trees
because they make a mess. Do you suppose
that any tree agrees?