CLEMATIS PITCHERI


Like a forgotten potato in the bottom of a drawstring bag
The day is almost blind
Iris blades of the camera sky enfolding
Sickeningly slowly

Heavy, dull light
Swampy stillness

From the heart of the torpor
Comes the cuckoo's eerie prophecy
Magus rain crow

Comes the thunder
Comes the certainty of downpour
Waters of the sea (waves of fire)

Wet

Unraveling up from boggy gravity
Pouting
It offers a bruised leather lip

Lapping up the kiss of rain

6/1/2001
Ingrid Karklins