Fat-Free Half and Half

It’s progress.
Things change.
You cannot expect land
to stay woods, fields
forever.

Don’t think of

cool shade trees cut down,
clapboard houses, barns
gutted, leveled.

multi-colored retail signs,
restaurant exhaust,
asphalt parking lots, traffic.

the common
good, more taxes,
property’s best use.

Keep a picture from now
tucked away in a special
part of your mind to revisit

It will look
just fine, you won’t
even notice it

in a decade.