extravagance

Within the cherry tree a violin trembles.

A child stains her lips with sweet juice

In the heart of a peach.

On the east wind a lover tastes her first slow kiss.

An elephant runs from the heart of a forest

Iinto a tidal wave to rescue someone.

Did you not tell me, all this just happens

There where words like cause and effect lose meaning?

In this fullness I want to dissolve.

A ray of light merges with earth, oxygen, water.

Bursts forth as peacock, peony, peach, you and I, elephant, ocean and fish.

Such extravagance cannot die.

You give us no answers.

A fire rises, flames dancing and dying, concealing, revealing

The stillness of that which is knowing.