By Night I Found The Garden

I saw you at the crossroads

Of the chimera and the dream...

Both had grown out of the flowers

In the garden where I knelt

To embrace the scent of summer...

It was hidden in this veldt...

And then like flash lightening

Over ink black sky

It spread like wildfire in one night

Through stone pits and cherry blossoms...

Through every inch of breathing dirt,

Until the cold parts glowed with girth,

Packing a punch of pungent life

That brought the baby spikes return!...

O, please...bless them on their crooked, broken paths...

Just like light people float through veins,

Those networks of loosened street and asphalt,

Or alleyways with restless feet

That fret, and dally...

Dive, and dip...

And dance so awkwardly with death...

It comes so unexpected through romances of blind intent...

I saw you at the crossroads

Of the chimera and the dream...

Both had grown out of the flowers

In the garden where I knelt

To embrace the scent of summer...

Now the petals twice their size!...

I never will forget the curiosity of bugs,

And caterpillars that ran their entire length

Through my long finger tents

With fine finesse...

Now it is I,

Beneath the flesh

Of some great unknown hand

That's propped so calm

Inside the sweet, and succulent feast that's laid

In this garden at night where

I practiced my

Transition...

The flowers stretch so tall now,

I can barely see their bobbing heads...

The pollen drops like giant pixie dust exploding softly at the left and right of me...

I am within a wall of grass blades and

I'm inhaling the sights of

Enlarged life at night...

The flowers talk to me in dreamy hushed tones,

And they tell me I'm alright...

I have been here for sometime, but for how long

One can't tell...

I only know I'm off the grid,

And it makes my heart feel well...

Bunny Villaire

6/2/23

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