​Poems from Physic Garden 8.10.22

The Little Apple Tree
Embedded instability,
rooted thickly entwined,
telling and told
pulses in secret code
humanity enigma code unbroken

those gnarly unwholly
weathered, warped and wassailed
weathered, beaten up, scared
nodules, nodes and knots
notations of place and time,
this watchman, this truth, echoes nature
a twist in turning, ebbs and flows.
Memories of a bygone time,
eclipsing into sepia memorandums

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Leafiest Wall
The leafiest wall remembering
falling,
fell,
fallen,
bony framework
fragile skeleton,
barren and bereft,
lamenting what was
mourning each leaf lost at cost
re-membering  
it
re-membering
when
re-membering
why and how
above all
re-membering
in substance
I wonder, who will re-member me and by?
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Aut-tum-bling down
Aut-tum-bling down
and down
and down
a cascade of
orange ochna
rusty and copper  
russet red
a symphony of colour
splashing down into
muddy puddle
fodder for re-imagining
next season