Petals

“The weight of the petal

has changed

the face of the world

and made it ours” (Eiseley)

I saw stones

marking a path back to

an ancient world of 

dying giant reptiles

where the first flowers

blushed male

and female

forming one

seed after another

giving rise

to the birds

and the bees

‘twas thus how

mother earth’s 

flower-seed-fruit bridge

grew from 

millennia to millennia

until it spanned oceans

and continents 

around the globe