Interlopers
Thirty years ago, multi-floral rose and
fruit laden wild berry bushes could be
found in abundance everywhere around here.
Native grasses provided shelter
to the ground nesters and the
warm summer nights were filled
with the call of whippoorwills
and of nightingale songs.
Mature walnut trees shared
space with the oaks and hickories-
wildlife had their own place
and pretty much stayed put.
Now, the well-oiled machines of
development have bulldozed most
of the trees and shredded them into
mulch to landscape neatly manicured
lawns that now flourish in place of the
multi-floral rose, wild berries and
native grasses- considered noxious
interlopers-
they have been exterminated,
and collaterally, so too the ground nesters-
the whippoorwill’s call and the nightingale’s
song are silenced.
Remaining wildlife have adapted
by foraging back yards-
turning over garbage pails, raiding bird
feeders, preying on household pets and
grazing those prized manicured lawns,
ironically, causing the real interlopers
much inconvenience, distress
and collateral habitat destruction.
Copyright © Curtis Forsythe | Year Posted 2017
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