Fronds of coraline and sweet,

Tender wands disseminating

Flume flower and myth

And decadence:

The flush festooned,

Plush push

Of sap transformed

To nectar’s heady

Significance of sex

And desirous fertility

Expressed in petal perfect

Symmetry and wantonness.

© Ben Truesdale and distilledvoice, 2015.