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Delphinium a gay garden May 2000 (revisited)

07 Saturday May 2016

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Delphinium ~ a gay garden, revisited
May 2000

‘Till the shadows
on his past
In a separate garden.

Except that we were
laughing
they too
were full silhouettes

in bloom

& not to bother

to intrude on mindless
heads thrown back for
That late brunch
sun mocking itself
meanwhile
a frond noir
Tricking the eye into
Thinking that it is

reseeing a day of youth
the shade of shadows
in shadows
we don’t really remember
even 20 years ago before

the last fall
When everyone was
subsumed
vortex
justanothermonster
million-rooted blood hydra
just another monster
to be melted

who were we but
all of us

to be still here

on this day buried
behind black purple
Siberian irises
splashed with cheap mimosas
or aubergine

sweated morning glories
all flora

staying out for a long
nevermore luxuriant

Lurching
fox gloves
slap each

other with tired lilies
forgetting a century
of black Pagliaci tears)

Spilled over lips
With winds swirls
making us blink vs
red or violet afterburns
to champagne
pink fade
blades
running
once,
leaves of grass
swat and sway
all afternoon
Trying to dance against
the lazy chorus of chive hammers
the entrada of
blurviolet organza
brushing by
Spiked feathers
Tripped over bowl of clover
Whispered over
villainous amaryllis

accidental
camaraderie
loitering
With such beautiful intent

Snapdragons in
snarky venereal poses
Under arc of skid row
rails repopulated with lilac clematis
(ear-ringed, dreadlocked)
And Camille

ignores

enough to
Descend.
On neon Medusa

granite dragon
ignored
unbloomed with doubt
certain of the galaxy
chrysanthemum
if it survives
Root map of the ants
cotillion next door to
The red speck-flies
Amok on mauve silk belles
willow

spiraled in
gnarled beauty
because of the early heat
and forget-me-nots
lost on other endless afternoons
the amber showdown
vaporized our outfits
reassemble from last
night
unforced bloomed
in the twilight

of blue roses
we’ve never

knew the worse

The lovers gone
Friends silenced
out of the
heroic sea
of unwanted souls
What we
were once
& need to be again
Will always be

kept like the
Ghosts of the gardens at Versailles.
Those forgotten blooms
still lost in someone else’s time

no we did not
remember promises not to
fall in love
Have sex
Not to cheat on our lovers
Or press leaves between
The pages of the pact that
We are finally
loving witness for each other
that is our sanctified root
the perpetual motion

on this last day

So the light changed
there is laughter
same larkspur
flying out of Troy
To drown out
cry for the next rain
soaring in this
dank metropolis
so supple
so fetid sometimes
she soars
in the field of
Delphinium

So instead do not
turn our back
On the blinded warriors
going back in
to say goodbye
unforeshadowed

Queens of the Garden

(For Jack & those beautiful men gathered

May 2000)

 

 

annual revisit & some replanting to Delphinium, A Gay Garden

MetroScape

21 Thursday Mar 2013

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imag0066.jpg~ bridge branches & sky~ 3.19.2013

from Blue shadow

Afternoon when a sculler
fires his oar
exiles the others
Without will
but infinite heart
stood among the
Disappeared
without their pulse
was so fast away
Like a stone arrow
Carved in lightening by Mercury
still I see his shadow
till just below the surface
cried without remembering
to forget his face

LWpics

18 Monday Mar 2013

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LIMBO

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PIFA's almost completed time tunnel

PIFA’s almost completed time tunnel

Don’t get stuck in days of future past

For Jan

10 Sunday Mar 2013

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City Trees~ for Jan Carroll with eternal love

Midsummer

02 Tuesday Aug 2011

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‘Escaping’ by Jan Carroll

from Sassafrass

If I taught you to steep tea
If I couldn’t get
you down from that crag
to sit to hear
it seepseepseep
or some such thing

while waiting
over the basin
your face
in amber

muttering stupid curses
If then I let you

lay tealeaves
across my body
soaking the unknown past
through my skin,
If then we are,
If then.

Botanicals

16 Saturday Jul 2011

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from The Silent Era

suncrowns arc
green frieze
in warring weather
untractable and unnamed
the integrity of the winds
heralds clearer to
untimed movement in the trees
unstudied, loveless
withered, hidden out
this bower

may be an oasis
or a trap or a canopy for bug continents
or livid bioscape
writhing, sacrifical
gold and mud of reed marsh in that dream
rips down
sordid and violent
unconsciously a primal document
a lewd imprimatur
quieted summer
for always, peace is disturbed.
 

from Jan’s gallery

27 Monday Jun 2011

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from Jan’s Gallery

18 Friday Mar 2011

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Light&Shadow

13 Thursday Jan 2011

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‘Barn door’  by Jan Carroll

07 Friday Jan 2011

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