passionflower

 

 

like winter sun warming the crisp outline

of evergreens on frost’s last kiss,

 

like an impression of stars

bursting in indigo nightframe,

 

like orion, swift-slaying, swaying

between boughs,

 

she is electric, blue-jazz summer sky,

ricocheting

 

with all the fierce beauty

of a flowering storm

 

 

© 2026 jennifer wagner

 

q44: flower

 

photo © jennifer wagner, from las noches de las luminarias, desert botanical garden, phoenix, az

abloom

Image © 2016 Jennifer Wagner

flowers

are for falling

like i do

into you,

knee-deep and

head over—

for healing

winter’s ragged,

jagged bones

and just

to make you smile

© 2016 Jennifer Wagner