Queen Ann' s Lace *

Silhouettes in the  hedges      
hawthorns bound in bindweed ties      
white moons shining in the noonday,      
trumpets proclaiming summer's afternoon.      
Sweethearts cleave to  branches      
gate ajar,creaking as I enter,      
with poppy red and campion pink.      
Mid-summer sun and panting robin      
sleeping faun  nettles limp      
no more to sting, fretwork ferns      
patterns cut, scissors in the night.      
Nightjars guarding with the owl.      
Bracken in the copse turns gold      
before the ferns, brambles soon      
purple fingers, bleeding hands and pies      
Foxgloves fade as seed pods swell,      
seedlings for next year around my feet,      
Fire-weed soon to light the path.      
       
(Queen Ann's Lace* ...... a common name for Daucus carota )    
       
       
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