Friday, June 29, 2007

Ode to the Gardenia





To spy between thighs of hibiscus at her drooping petals
she scorches the eye with unshuttered exposure.
Even avocados tilt down and blush mauve
behind dimple-skin envy. She lay
like a platter straddling sky,
as bees swim into petals
behind screens wet with dew, then stumble
like drunks on the moon. Alabaster
folds nudge wings and antennae:
the insect world
swoons in her thickening lap.

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