Abelia

Time's Polyphony

Just because we perceive time as linear doesn’t mean that it’s flat or monophonic. If we listen closely we can hear its polyphony.

Thanks for taking a moment with me today. And Happy Poetry Month.

Abelia

As I trim back 
the surging abelia 
that’s made a blind of 
the corner of the yard
where the scalloped, 
double-bowled, 
time-tarnished 
concrete fountain sits,
my shears reveal
brown, serrated leaves 
from my neighbor’s tall oak tree 
that fell several moons ago.

Autumn sings still in the chorus of spring.