This Sea Lavender
Feb 22nd, 2010 | By John Grey | Category: Poetry | 325 viewsHere, meaning separates gladly from reality:
tiny, pale, purple flowers,
diffuse wiry branches of unseen enterprise.
Sea lavender celebrates incautious bloom.
Blue mist spreads in a fluttering parody of direction,
from the stunned beast in the human soul
to the industry of a raccoon’s rapid tongue.
On a meadow walk,
a man’s head is a precious almanac,
causal vision devoured by abstract themes.
Flowers are ends in themselves
but beginnings elsewhere.
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About John Grey: Australian born poet, US resident since late seventies. Works as financial systems analyst. Recently published in Connecticut Review, Kestrel and Writer’s Bloc with work upcoming in Pennsylvania English, Alimentum and the Great American Poetry Show. |
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