In the beginning, the Word,
names blossoming first, bursting
from the luster of silence,
then the texture of the echo
called into softness
through pastel incantations
of Columbine, Dianthus,
Pulsatilla the Pasque Flower
also known as Mouse On A Stick,
Japanese Anemone, Grass Widow,
Pearly Everlasting invoked
as Anaphalis Margaritacea,
Fritillaria the Chocolate Lily,
Trillium and Golden Bush,
Dodecatheon the Shooting Star,
Lysitichon the secret lovely
Western Skunk Cabbage,
a shout of April flowers,
cacophony of wave and trough,
ghosts of beauty, shadow-bright,
erupting from a frolic of quarks
into fragrant clustered photons,
the nectar of your flesh.
Photo: Skunk Cabbage by Don Elliot
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