Clifton French Regional Park in Minnesota.
This is where all species of trees
Lived together and they don’t pick a fight.
Right now, this very moment
In Darfur and Chechnya and Najaf and Narathiwat
And in the westbank, in gaza, in beersheba
The son of man is hurling
Bullets and bombs into his brother’s house.
In Clifton French Regional Park, in Minnesota
Two blocks away from my home
Oak trees and birch trees and cypress trees
And cedar trees join for dance and song.
Dead trees and living trees, tall trees and short trees,
Black trees and red trees
Live together In Clifton French Regional Park
In Minnesota two blocks away from my home.
In kabul and Cashimir and in the horn of Africa
In Bagdad and in Jakarta a nine-year-old boy
Is learning how to aim and how to kill a man.
In the long history of mankind
Men are more inclined to teach than to learn.
If they learn, they would learn from the cherries
And the crap apples and fig trees and sycamore
That dwell together at the Clifton French Regional Park
Where kids play in peace
Where parents watch in peace
Where deer and foxes and song-birds live in peace
Two blocks away from where I live.
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