Day by day the vine
has crept
While others slept
.. up the trellis
she has stepped..
and where climatis
has for joy
her petaled blooms wept
Buddhists have only
with feather brooms swept
CALYX
The tree is dead
and now its logs
are calyxed
where the firetongues
have licked..
as jewels are by
settings, as
rosebuds are
by green petals.