This glowing Camellia flower:
bolts of silk thrown in fresh air
held in stop-motion like the water
in Philipp Halsmann’s “Dali’s Cat”,
Hawaiian wave looping the curl,
pavilions of billowing calico,
dervishes whirling in wedding white,
elegant splay of egret’s wing,
songthrush swirls in spacious evening,
brush of light on fallen snow –
nourished by the living pulse,
hum of earth in thrall to sun:
life showing off to itself
in its own playground.
Verses of Five 