Winter’s Valentine

A garden inside

Rolls from deep sleep

A long ago lover,

Sacred to the beloved,

Reaches out in green longing.

Has the stone been rolled away?

Is the moment ripe?

“Not yet.”   “Soon”

Scarcely vibrate

The quivering nose,

First to sense wet earth,

The field of Bluettes…

The perfume under supple arms

 Lifted in surrender,

On the possible “yes,”

 Love waits

Anxious to be known.

The back of winter’s bleakness

Broken by memory,

The lover, the gardener,

The ripeness of the heavens.

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CarCar

“(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)”
e.e. cummings

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