You Stepped Into the Garden

You stepped into the garden arrived the Bougainvillea of the spring stanzas of poetry You're putting on the big eyeglasses lips on bouquet get concealed behind the maze of metaphor In the nest of deep green leaves the bud is in a swell waves of poems rhythmic In the flute, the serotonin circuit igniting the flames of an orange the flavour of a sonnet The chiselled shadow of your face on the light brown tea my lips for the poetry ____________________________ 25 January 2023