Tag: plants
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Starcarrier’s sad fragment
At rest My bones Innermost piping. At best My poems Middlemost climb Bedpost high only One eye alone descries Their broke fiddler tone. A finger stoneless What lingers of that no’d proposal. Somewhere voice-bare no one else goes there Fiery quiet, fair and admirably foliate Light roseate. Enfolding irises eye holding Yellow as Carcosa’s minaret’s…
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Light garden symphony II
A rosemary sprig a meal fixture, pink pigworts And openbook celandine like a child’s impression of a flower Midnight fruit lowhanging brought to my waiting fangs My pangs bridled, if only for a while Fire filled sefirot rotting on coffinwood branches, Spring reclaiming Lanterns sprouting gaily, shoots upshooting like backward comets Winter-blanched branches and boughs…
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Delighting in flowers
Light foreboring columbines Mother in law’s tongue sharp, marbled Thorned knight the milk thistle A son of cursed Lambton. Stately elms housing owls Brocaded with striations Big pink bouquets of Stinking Billies For trenchant bully Orange William. In pale June Maylings still maere Gaunt and bare, as yet hairless In stolid boughs repose black bores…
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Garden healers
Loment doctor Chaff-flower Devil’s horsewhip lopped Makes cough’s curative For colds sneezewort Celandine for warts.