Photos taken by me @ The SF Botanical Gardens
IN THE GARDEN
Between the lawn and pebble deck
stands a Oaxacan tree-of-life:
fired clay trunk and branches flowering
at the top with birds of peace
that gaze softly down on Eve
and Adam, the Serpent with an apple
in its mouth. Around the mythic tree,
periwinkle twines its tendrils
among red-clay limbs, through leaves;
over Adam’s shoulder, about Eve’s
waist; over-coiling the Snake,
weaving everything with living green.
