Garden Notes: Crêpe Myrtle
Myrtales : lythraceae
This ecstatic blooming. These flowers,
This fuschia field leaps outward.
Blooms
spring forth
on arched limbs
as if their only purpose
is to mesmerize the bees,
their buzzing, a song
one enters slowly like
one enters a cathedral.
In stilly reverence.
Where nature is altar,
is statue, is nave.
This holy sound,
a chorus in busy flight
honored among the petals,
among the flowering,
a joyous hymn
in summer’s magenta air,
where to stand in awe
where to stand in prayer.
published in humana obscura, summer 2024