Wading past the threshold... <br />I step outside <br />to rejoin the earth... <br />make up for lost time.... <br /> <br />...Knolls and Hillocks rolling out... <br />royal carriages of robust... opulent green... <br />...Carpet of lush verdant velvet sprawling <br />...far as the eye can see! <br /> <br />Phantom tundra thundering silently overhead... <br />great grey ivory glaciers floating through the arctic azure sky! <br />Frothy cascade of cumulo-cotton blanketing halcyon-blue horizon! <br /> <br />Engulfed by the floral bounty, <br />I feel a shift at the core of my being! <br /> <br />Aplomb! ... Agog! ...gadding about, <br />I traipse along the cobble stone. <br /> <br />O the informal pathway! <br />In its jagged unvarnished Perfection - <br /> I see for the first, all likenesses: <br />Personalities Stories Characteristics of woman, of man <br />etched on the face of the hardened surface. <br /> <br />Unwonted! Unworldly! Vernal Fertility! <br />Springs solar solace! <br />Alacrity in the air! <br />Au naturale perfumes! <br />Effulgent sun-struck foliage! <br /> <br />In our garden... <br />...Enraptured...Carefree... <br />the garden <br />we sowed mended groomed <br />our hands our trowel our sweat <br />our toil our care <br /> <br />This garden <br />once flourished under <br />the tender bloom of our affection; <br />brought up, raised in perfect affinity... <br />Every petal Every sapling Every node <br />Every mottled panicle... <br />still possessing a fragmented <br />piece of your jeweled essence... <br /> <br />Poppies shine like day-glow rubies! <br />Violet irises possessing ingenious depth! <br />Morning glories Blue as Neptune's aura! <br />O! the unadulterated Gardenias
