is there a thing
as too much blue sky?
I miss the leaves
© Rachel Green April 2021
I am dismayed
by new legislation
turning trespass into a criminal offence.
That photograph of a tree I took last summer
could now land me a hefty fine
and a criminal record.
I might as well sell drugs
or boost cars for fun and profit
as pop over the fence to pick the elderberries
or harvest the sulphurous-yellow fungi
that's a perfect substitute for meat.
The landowners are smug
on their twelve hundred acres
while they place spurious claims for expenses
from the House of Commons
and quietly ignore the rules
about insider trading.
© Rachel Green April 2021
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