Belated Words

Write On!

Tag: burning bush

  • Spirea: Burning Bush

    spirea 002

    Scattered Spirea blaze reddish/gold,

    flaming space-heater globes, warming

    my brown garden iced by lethargic air.

    If I lie naked among them could I thaw,

    and seep to meld with nourished root

    capillaries spiraling to a fruitful place

    of spring stirrings and glorious blooms?

    ∞

    Could I, in late March break ground,

    a green sliver twisting to light only,

    sated with discernment of all things,

    yet ordained by the flow only to flow;

    a Buddha sitting under The Tree of Life,

    hands cupped, not in prayer, but empathy?

  • Moses and the Burning Bush

    An Elysian blunder was how it began;

    a careless spark spewed over heaven’s brim

    and shrubbery was ablaze in heathen/land.

    The worst part was the humorless witness:

    flock-boys were bothersome with time

    to watch and wonder and suspect more.

    Since original fire could not consume…

    merely entice and dazzle and show,

    improvisation was called for, so I AM

    assigned an asinine, too/big quest, enough

    to quiver and quail a shepherd’s lust

    to tell and brag of what he had witnessed.

    We know how that turned out.