American Flowers

floating high above truth,

airglow is red, horizon blue,

dusk is falling over you…

a twin captioned his space picture

eating a fresh head of space lettuce.

zero gravity gardens produce

a cosmic zinnia space bloom.

inventing influence from random things

caught by radiant eyes

stumbled upon then connected,

return to earth ever so slowly

american flowers rusting on tundra.

husks melt into alluvial shelf on bluie east two.

brilliant zinnia colored sunsets under frozen blues,

dusk is falling over you...

frozen greenland garden of rusting barrels,

genetic glitches touch our hearts and minds.

we inherit good deeds. we inherit sins.

pass on the stress and trauma of our years,

hunt for inspiration and love given in defense,

golden rosy cross blooms center

on the rose of the winds,

bringing a nebulous quality to vitriol.

rectify and find that underground hidden stone,

orange and yellow, fire and gold.

let the world pivot on your own center

and the giant shoulders we stand on.

crumble into the dark matter,

sympathetic transference

follows the raven and the wanderer,

transforming the mountain into the great one.

goodbye mount mckinley...

like a classic book without words,

punctuation falls away with the birds.

translating unseen literary structure

graphically beautiful and illuminating,

but can it be written into existence again?

All so new to us like dwarfed eris and sedna

or that neptune-sized planet lurking beyond pluto.

american flowers of endurance,

zinnia over greenland, zinnia over denali

zinnias rusting in the snow,

disintegrate slowly under rays of nightglow.

the angry orange eye of taurus blinks,

fragile and slipping, repeat the 72 names,

water your stellar eclipse! split your red sea!

airglow is red, horizon blue,

dusk is falling over you...