poem ELM

HABITAT
elm,
live to be 200 years old.
longer than me
I'm nearly over
 and maybe you
.
Sometimes called red elm,
 gray elm you are ,
you  grow best
in moist, wet pussyfied soil,damp in
rich soils
full of longing
 of lower slopes
where hands grope
 and flood plains that come like a wave then are gone totally,
and although become dry hillsides
the Elm lies in
 with limestone soils.
 It is abundant
and associated
 with wet Slippery places
the hard strong wood
is The tree
 I the seeds are but now  a minor source of food.
It has long been cultivated but succumbs to love.