Nov 25
Makes your eyes ache, almost,
nowhere to settle
in the profusion of colors
and textures
extending in all directions.
Your focus narrows to a single specimen
then pulls wide
across a carpeted path
or field
where boggling myriads
of discrete gifts,
display the beauty of a billion little deaths
which enable suspended life for winter survival
whose eventual decay will feed the summer forest.
Oct 15
Sometimes they help with the stories; really, they do.
Even as they’re pure distraction, to rest and pleasure the eyes
for as long as their season lasts,
as long as they are rich and luscious,
and emit from within a plush and regal depth,
every petal sumptuous, every stamen and pistil
glamorous in the infolding fibonacci wound so tight
three dimensions cannot contain their splendor.
Jul 1
Early summer’s chromatic abundance,
is everywhere,
in wild exuberance;
somewhere there’s a bleak
landscape of grays and browns
that all the bright colors have been
sucked away from and sent here;
all the shades, all the strategies,
to reach towards the sun
luxuriant unfurling
of flower DNA into petals
presenting their organs of generation
to all pollinators,
come up and see me, right now.