Tree Law

don’t light woodbine
lungs fill with blood
treasure don’t burn apple
irresistible blossom
griping blackthorn farfetching
burns inapt uncanny
home to birds scant & crank
willow for poets & bees
love its basket cages
burn rowan that serves sorcery
as graceful save hazel
dark ash wheel tack shaft
burn briar whip cat lash
hot green oak headache
alder high tempered warrior
burn her also whitethorn
burn holly young burn holly sere
elder laths impish destriers
turn them to charcoal as bad luck
will follow a birch-burner
raze the saplings especially
rude aspen palsied aspen
yew fathers redbellied barrels
& cheers.