My Apricot Tree

my poor old apricot tree

stripped by the Rainbows

before they departed

for warmer climes

my chickens are scratching around her base

Mynahs rest in her multidirectional branches

(yeah she could do with a good prune this year)

and we might get more fruit

some of that seaweed fertiliser

and a whole lot of TLC

it's a good tree

and she has taken more than her fair share

of the sting

of an evening summers sun

she has been battered

both by wind and by the rain

pruned up and slender

so as not to impede the grassy area

beneath her summer fronds

we both watch

as we wait