Hedges are green-planted fences that separate our yards
And your green endorsement closed the gap, gave it weight and pushed
Empire
Policy
Lies
Of far off wars
Ever closer to our conscientious doorstep
A schoolboy flinging the daily news
Your flinging and believing and
In earnest you harken
awaken
The snooze button of
Our moral imperative
It’s always under the softened midnight lamp-light
Of a surveillanced device
When another historical morsel
Lands In our sight
Your earnest publications take flight
Across the soft breath of my betrothed
In the symbol of hope and peace
Knowledge is bestowed
And spinning into heaven above
A simple sparrow shapeshifts
Into God’s holy pure dove
Hedges