Some kind of sprawling
big-leafed plant moved in next door—
from which of all distant jungles?
Place of Monarchs,
place of resplendent quetzals
(emerged from the Andes, related to
a deity, naming a coin)?
A green anaconda, maybe, lurks
among the voluminous leaves,
not off in South America or Trinidad,
island of sugar, home of the shapeshifting
Temple in the Sea: dedicated to Shiva,
then destroyed, then built again, before
being reduced to fragments by the tides.
And built again! Love and persistence
of such magnificence leafing,
though far from jungles, in my heart.
image: Spencer Wing, Pixabay
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