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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BASSWOOD TREE, by ROBERT SPARKS WALKER
First Line: Pawnbroker tree
Last Line: And pawn a note for food.
Subject(s): Basswood Trees
First Line: Pawnbroker tree
Last Line: And pawn a note for food.
Subject(s): Basswood Trees
(Note: The Basswood suspends its small round seeds on
Slender, wirelike stems, often in groups of three, resembling
a pawnbroker's sign.)
Pawnbroker tree
Among the forest folk,
Suspend your small
Seedballs, your triple brood,
Above your door,
That hungry birds when broke,
May fly inside
And pawn a note for food.
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