"The Perfect Specimen" (National Poetry Month-Poem A-Day) Day 3
The Perfect Specimen (Criminal Episode 36) written by Bruce A. Pandolfo 4/3/17 The Treaty Oak For more than five centuries, A Southern Live Oak set the scene an Austin Texas centerpiece as long as memory, Treaty Oak elder's seen this entire country get its feet, rooted long before we were ever seeds. An ancient arbor of immensity, average canopy can peak capped at 50 feet but its sprawling branches broadly spanning a brawny massive hundred feet across, its contortionist form twisted, tinseled in Spanish moss, The rings it's got, can you imagine all the things it saw, The trials and tribulations of tribal natives the languid limbs swaying waving in winds bereft of industrialization, spied tribes of Native Americans assessing it with reverence, Seen Steve meet chiefs achieving land possession taken and make a state that became Texas and it was there in '22 that one of its brethren was chopped and tattooed to...