Making Lemonade Street

Making Lemonade Street

They are bulldozing 
the forest in front of the forest 
when we stop.

Mockingbirds, bottle flies— 
explode once.

Tulip poplars in late greening 
splinter, scatter 
around the cut-out pond.

A worm of gravel 
shadows the creek.

Workers in concrete dust,
SPF walls rising.

The wheeling mockingbirds break north 
leaving leftover trees to flies, the pond to frogs.

“Lemonade Street “ 
the new green street sign
over poured concrete.