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LITANY OF DIVINE SEED PROTECTON AND OTHER NATURE POEMS

DIVINE SEED PROTECTOR

He makes tomato seeds
slippery beyond the
crunching teeth to slide

He clothes mango seeds
in saffron silk strands
that they discarded
catch the dew and
with life ignite

It is the design
of the all knowing Divine
to give maple seed
samaras
helicopter propellers
to take them far

He gathers dandelion seed spears
into a snowy perfect sphere
that the wind may
blow them to all points away

The almond he
bequeaths a hard shell
that it survive
January cold hells

Cockleburs He created
to travel, sticking to clothes
which gave someone the idea
for adhesive velcro.

The palm tree's coconuts
.. which might drop into the sea
He plasters with a hard husk
to guard inner coconut milk sea

and sends apple seeds unharmed
through the bodies of birds...
these seedstorks..
drop them into chimneylike
chutes in distant climes

The seed of beech
which falls near beach
.. has spokes to cling
to stable things.

The seed inside
soft avocado
is hard and
incommunicado
until the tiruna
when it will delve
into the earth

He seeps sap out of
female pinecones
to attract male pine cone
pollen to the cone throne

Black watermelon seeds
He packs in pink satin
along with captured stormdrops
that they both quench human thirst
and nurse the seeds.

He hangs at the top
of the pepper belfry
the white pepper bell chimes
that they not be harmed
at salad time

The black walnut He wraos
Around its girth
With a moist nursing green rind
Until it is rooted in Mother Earth

Unlike the peachpit
hard as granite
soft and sweet are
seeds of the pomegranate...
Their ruby juiced beauty
multiplies them.

But in divine compassion
he weaves inaide cornhusks
the light of dusk
revealing corngold
easily unsheathable
for humans and crows

(to CR and TK)
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EFFORTLESS SPINNING

With the oaks and maples
the fir trees do not spar
as toward heaven point
their treetop spears.
Beneath them
dandelions crowned by
spores grow by grass spires
needing no spur iin jadespinning
as to grow bigger they aspire.

(to Luke L)

THISTLE EPISTLES

What are the Thistle's Epistles?
Merely let go of your seeds
and the wind will scatter them
the rain will enkindle them
the sun will lift them

(to Sue and Jack M)

SILENT SERMON OF THE SEA

What is the silent sermon
of the sea
she bequeaths to each mermaid and merman
she in seaweed wreathes.
What is her legacy
in each leg of the sea?
Accept all lonely rivers..
Don't strive.. just be
Offer your self to God the Sun
Be at peace beneath
gulls' staccato shrieks.

(to kind sealoving
WHO Sr.)

CORN EARS

Marc Antony asked the
crowd to lend him an ear..
(Perhaps Van Gogh took
this too literally.)
and the corn responded.
She grew on cobs
she grew on curbs
and like a healing listener
she did not lend but
gave her ears.

(to Mimi, a saint since she was 2)

-5-

CORN EARS
DIVINE SEED PROTECTOR
EFFORTLESS SPINNING
SERMON OF THE SEA
THISTLE EPISTLES

-Saiom Shriver-