Dance of the Populus

They're dancing all night,
Tonight in Rio—
The shimmy of cottonwood leaves,
The seductive jiggle,
The eye catching wiggle,
The shine the rivulet weaves.

They're dancing all night,
Tonight in Rio!
They'll dance tomorrow all day—
Shedding their cottons,
Their lofty worldview,
And replicating their own DNA.

 

-jenn long