Guerilla Flowers

Guerilla flowers
Stealth attack
By petals
with pistils
We were,
By Gawd, just
Wonderful!
Still, a poem
Is a device
To measure time.
A clock ticking
And spreading
Images across
The day,
Smearing pollen
Through my mouth,
Smudging hands and face.

June 30, 2007
Betsy McKenzie