Monday, May 12, 2025

Just When Valentine

Just when the pomegranate flowers fade
Blue panicles of the chaste tree 
Pick up the theme like piccolos
From slowly lifting strings
Which is when the bees sweep in 
A throbbing chorus covering the tree
Audible above the traffic's drone
When the wind swings its baton
And the stiff branches are drawn
Across the metal roof and shriek
Like a child practicing her cello 
But the theme hurries on
Unstoppable sublime
Until it all turns yellow
And the stars go blind

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