Crocus: A Brief History

The crocus opens out to something more than crocus, becomes a brief history of time, the ology of cosmos, as a poem is –

impacted yellow of gold-dust, shape of a baby-thumb all-tentative, prelude to a new year; breath of fire from the dark earth, from the closed heart;

the rose-coloured: flush of love, signature of the overture: – these sudden, these small preliminaries – polyphony of crocus – demi-semi-quavers

of what will be an oratorio of hollyhock, lupin, sunflower, under the gold-full baton of the light.

for Thomas Leonard

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