Green Peas at Stake

Snapshots (Dew Drop 24)

Snapshots

Bedazzled, I took a few snapshots
of a dignified queen palm today,
thinking, come late fall, it may
not be here, for lack of roots
causes tall things to fall when
hurricanes arrive, leaving
only shadows to tuck away grief
for what is lost, inside the eyes.
So, in this accidental world,
a well-tended tree waving its arms
to the golden sun
deserved my faint awareness and
lukewarm clicks of the camera, even if
a storm is a wind in vain
like an ephemeral madness and
one may assume some things
can be replaced afterwards.