plant – leaf and twig

Wearing Rings Like Saturn

from the forest floor
emerges
another universe

leaf feather
rooted to the earth
sailing on light

the big
green footprint
of spring

goldenrod in winter
summer’s memory keeper

before the toad
is ready to retire
the garden is put to bed

what berry be this
so boldly red
in its dead fern bed

during the final days
of summer’s heat
the hosta wears seersucker

Akimbo and zigzag
energy
must be released.

With such bodacious leaves
there is no need to flower.

A fern frond
unfurls wearing
newborn fuzz.