By Joe LeClerc

Apple's Rose Canto


The apple
.......................drove home
...................................................a nail
......................................................................in pine wood
blonde
...............violins
............................married
...........................................african violets, flowers bearing,
giving birth to
...........................wooden willows
..............................................................singing sonatinas

Marimbas rang chimes
................................................as star clouds drift misted
and kissed moon's pale cheek
.................................................before morphing to water

Willow choir
..............with angel's lyre
...............................strings that harp melody arrows
flying
......................,,,,,.to the ears
.................................................................of the Pleiades

The star cluster
..........cries with pleasure
........................at hearing the music of blonde violet boughs
branched with flowers
................................................../////........of soft glory