Mulberry Leaves

I see you as the mulberry-plant, which:

• Grows gratefully into the niche it is given, even an asphalt scrape at the corner of a yard; or will as readily be a tree in a wide patch of plain.


• Bears resentment, frequently summary removal, from the very ones who would rationally take and enjoy its fruit.


• Is the low and disreputable humus from which the glory of silk proceeds.


• Throws off joy in the form of senseless and profligate leaves.