June Jungle

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Now the invisible, indivisible
terrors have places to crawl
silently (while infant voices squall),
for the garden has become a jungle.

In the last week of May shooting
up, a green explosion, everywhere:
deceptively steady in present looking,
if I turn away they'll be there:

'What time is it, Mr Wolf? -
tender tendrils and monsters too,
tapping on windows while I sleep,

dragging me up from gulfs,
threading their presences through
morning beads as sun climbs steep.

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