I am the blackjack oak
protecting herself
with a 2nd set of leaves.
If I’m shorn of one
by chance or natural
means
I will produce the other
I regenerate myself
Containing all the
stubborn possibility
The world will not allow me
to ignore.
–Shaun Perkins
Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry 
I like this Shaun. I like to feel a metaphor in it and I do. happy new year.