First Green
Toronto: where
summer.2018: when
photo based


Nature's first green is gold,


Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's
a flower;


But
only
so
an
hour,


Then leaf subsides to leaf.



So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day,

Nothing gold can stay.


Photography by Alexis Venerus
Along with Robert Frost's poem First Green