botanic gardens
will forever be compared
to Monte’s beauty
tropical magic
trees and blooms of every shade
giving us NO shade
two thousand years old:
a tree planted by Romans
to bring us olives
on all future trips
beating Madeira? so hard
blue-green amazement
cats and roses glow
for days after my birthday
sunrise and sunset
the orchid is done
it bursts at thirty-two blooms
yet the blooms don’t die
it's not romantic
and yet it's so romantic
i garden. he builds
everything’s broken
the car, the obese dog… me
oh, but the orchid.
our road trip return:
too many blossoms to count
(spring inside the house)
even outside blooms
just planted last September
have welcomed us home
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