The Palms Transplanted
The smoky trunks of the palms
curve heavy and tall
on three guy wires
that brace their slant and balanced.
They are so shallow rooted
it seems their shafts
cut free of the wires
would fail in the first big wind.
Not so. For years their fronds
will shake in the air
with a sound like water spraying.
Supple as love, the palms
will weather the winds
though they have as little to go on.