Sep 2
In summer, everyday, all around the house,
in pots, in beds,
on bushes, climbing trellises,
color explodes.
Full sun,
part shade,
all shade,
the white and yellow
and orange blooms
grab human eyes
and pull in pollinators.
Deep red
and rose
and lavender
explode
then slowly fade.
Pale blue
soft lavender,
down,
darker, to deep violet.
No blessing comes to us
as charmed
as a partner who brings forth flowers.
All over the bush, on every branch, hundreds of these.
Sharon’s rose.
Worker bee on a sticky shaft.
Bootstraps of a bee.
Exquisite workmanship at every bloom. She outdoes herself.
The thrust of it.
The blooms of dill are lovely in life,
are changed but, in death, undiminished.
Dill and gone.
Smile at the sun smiling,
and filter every ugly thing.
Life star terrestrial.
Pure love, immutable, golden.
Yellow rose represents.
Tabled motion in the parliament of flowers.
Beauty arranged.
Above the orchard about a hundred yards, history barks a lesson.
The big trunk was a chestnut brought down by blight.
The little trunk was second growth, brought low by blight’s grandson.
Blight too shall pass.
Chestnut, not spreading.
Nothing beside remains.
Hunks of trunk at the root.
All the branches have become brush
after a hundred seasons of blossom and fruit.
Alas, poor York!
A little sadness for the loss of shade and loss of keeper apples,
and loss of the bird staging arena of limbs and twigs.
But a hundred-year reign is a fruit-tree jubilee.
Blessed be.