The Luniferous Gazette #61: Night Roses are Better than Day Blossoms

 Shape in the Dark

 

Once upon a summer evening, I wandered into my rose garden and discovered that each blossom bore a different kind of sensory beauty in the dark—

Night Roses

Night roses are better

than day blossoms—

unable to dazzle with

petal frill and flush,

sunlit senses must trade

eye light for the silk-soft

brush of shape in the dark,

perfume stirred sweet

by evening shadows,

and the quiet flutter

of flower bodies in time

with the twinkle

of starlight. 

 A snatch of pink shade and moonless clouds . . . 

 Source:

“Night Roses.” (October 2024). Northern Narratives. 58.

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