seas of butterfly peas flutter;
purple, blue swollen petals unfold,
welcome light and warmth in the still of garden
apple blossoms fall soundless across broad shoulders,
cling to the sweater of the gardner as she clips
jonquil, gladiola, from hoards of like blooms
a blanket cast in the tulip bed and lounged upon;
a gardner, fertile and strong, sunglowed, rounded, lithe,
smelling of earth and flower and mown grass
spirea caressing two bodies, sun-warm skin,
breath mulch soft and green cool;
the tulips riot in a breeze, erupt in frenzies of joy
