Willow Around About

Willow Around About: Upon the cutting of a willow tree on a traffic roundabout in Hereford 2016. The Willow weeped for the loss of her City Proud City, rural trading City The World and his wife had beaten a track For the cattle, sold at auction Bartered in pubs, paraded with pride. Once great and powerful Now casting the dice Dice in a cup, a death rattle Gambling on a future Once the City fed the World Now the World feeds off the City Bolts of cloth stacked high sold cheap Quick sale of shoddy goods, Brick a brack for the masses Priced by the value of dead trees Discarded life chopped down Sawn by men to make way for brick and tar To make way for a brave hewn world Willow weeped worrying where will She be? Who will care?