with its top scratched off
on a branch in UCC
the trees are under and over
the two giant redwoods nowhere
to be seen - they are stunted maybe
there were rips in the blasted cliffs
where a person could climb to the top
to the hallowed Aula Maxima after dark
when they shut the gates - and at the gates
four white swans
necks dripping like bass tones into the deep.