Home Grown Poem
Bo’s trampled the bleeding hearts
and not for purely metaphorical reasons.
Squashed and pink in a mulch
of pig manure, passion’s illuminated
by mango martinis disguised
as garden lighting. Among bluebells,
a fern unfurls like a huddle
of Martians. Oh love,
love, what comes apart like
your white lies / white lilies?
Jeri Onitskansky is an American-born Jungian analyst and poet who lives and works in High Barnet. Her pamphlet Call them Juneberries was an IOTA shot winner and was published by Templar Poetry in 2015.