Flower Sexed

 

Unfurling petals expose a pollen-dusted stamen. Lanky filaments 

extend down into the cradling basin of the flower where wet, 

film covered ovules are encapsulated in the safety of fleeting prematurity.  

The male and female parts are bound by a photosynthetic codependency 

for survival of their erotic existence; 

                  they shake and spread                         open.  

Insects approach and smother themselves in pollen, making love and getting 

full and drunk from the nectar of flowering wildness. Grateful for being 

being so close to the inside of the flower, flowering, in front of crickets, 

unabashed by bees clinging to its anthers and furrowing themselves in the stigma.  

Gracing entire gardens at a time, lavender crowning the bumblebees, 

hummingbirds lost in the fuchsia.