Urban Forest

It is a true urban forest
set within the boundaries
of a modern industrialized
highly-technically-advanced
city, not a manicured, cared-for
parkland setting, but one of
nature's rude enclaves where
trees mature, they age and
fall and rotting detritus 
enriches the forest floor
littered with an understory of
lesser trees and wild shrubs,
bracken and whichever wild
flowers scarce-penetrating
sunrays encourage to bloom.
Within its depths where hills
rise and valleys descend,
trickles a clay-based creek
uninviting to fish yet with
its share of little-seen aquatic
life. In that forest wing cardinals
and bluejays, hawks and owls,
nuthatches and chickadees,
crows and sometimes ravens.
Pileated woodpeckers drum
the insect inhabited bark of
infested trees. The forest
remains intact because its
geology does not lend itself
to the exploitation of land
'development'. Nature has
developed it for its own very
singular uninterrupted purpose.