Love
is a common word. Don’t let your jaded mind
forget its purest derivations.
1.
A topiary forest,
home of a hungry paradise,
a rotund heaven.
2.
The round rind bed
on which a baby roundling sleeps
blanketed in ove leaves.
3.
Without umbrella
for there is no rain or snow;
without insects, snakes
and fears.
4.
Sugary rush from
feasting on melons
as middles grow.
5.
Inheritance of seeds.
6.
Bathing in honeysuckle streams.
7.
When any sense of wrong
is swiftly righted by a twirl through
fields of wildflowers.
8.
The Circular Interval
before Square Time.
9.
Envelop
like a watermelon lover.
C. Albert is based in Seattle, Washington. She is our resident artist and can be contacted through inksweatandtears@aol.com.