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Apr 2019 Elijah Bowen

Pablo Neruda

Out of lemon flowers
loosed
on the moonlight, love's
lashed and insatiable
essences,
sodden with fragrance,
the lemon tree's yellow
emerges,
the lemons
move down
from the tree's planetarium

Delicate merchandise!
The harbors are big with it-
bazaars
for the light and the
barbarous gold.
We open
the halves
of a miracle,
and a clotting of acids
brims
into the starry
divisions:
creation's
original juices,
irreducible, changeless,
alive:
so the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb.

Cutting the lemon
the knife
leaves a little cathedral:
alcoves unguessed by the eye
that open acidulous glass
to the light; topazes
riding the droplets,
altars,
aromatic facades.

So, while the hand
holds the cut of the lemon,
half a world
on a trencher,
the gold of the universe
wells
to your touch:
a cup yellow
with miracles,
a breast and a ******
perfuming the earth;
a flashing made fruitage,
the diminutive fire of a planet.

Apr 2019 Elijah Bowen

running

Apr 2019 Elijah Bowen

elle jaxsun

running

i always have
the urge to run.

but what is it like
to be a tree?

to be confident enough
to root yourself
and grow with
wild abandonment,
being unapologetically
you?

i'm still running,
but i wish i knew.

#tree #run #running #confidence #be #you

Apr 2019 Elijah Bowen

Tree strong and secret

Apr 2019 Elijah Bowen

Rose

Tree strong and secret

so
                              be
                             the
                            calm
                           green
                        so strong
                       all living               and
      it               all green             small
      calm   if      ever so calm        standing
      all light      quite special   so branches
       so secret a   rather small   rather green
       quite strong  very special  ever so living
        all special  esoteric, humble, specific
        particular branches standing, quietly
       ever so light twigs eating, graciously
        its primary branches standing, quietly
          buoyant twigs eating, graciously
           lite twigs feeding, graciously
        so    esoteric, humble, specific     .
   so    ever so clear twigs eating, graciously
   exceptional branches, loose twigs, covert morals
    specific branches, clear twigs, secret morality
     extra branches, pure twigs, privy ethical motive
       specific branches, clear twigs, esoteric morals
       ever so abstemious twigs eating, graciously
        esoteric, fine, new positively special
          decidedly small a   all living
          calm  foliage   a     standing
               a tree     a       strong!
               tree       a           leaf
               no         a
                          .

#tree #shape #leaf

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