Cafe latte in blue and white cup. On an even field of golden brown, a mess of milk adorns the surface. A tulip curves along the left third of the cup, its petals blending into a roiling arch across the far side of the cup. On the right, the arch breaks into two small pendulous blobs, uneven elongated globes hanging by thin stems with the rightmost having two small leaf-like (or sepal-like) projections where the stem meets rounded blob. In the center of the cup, the turbulence washes down across the surface in a wide band, the coffee barely visible in places. The band falls down the center of the cup and then swoops to the right along the near side, narrowing and fading out just below and between the blobs.
The sweet morrow
A tulip bloomed
hurling chaotic light
across restive clouds
in an unsettled sky.
Rain showers,
pools,
and sloshes.
Pendulous plums
will wax and ripen,
mellow in the sun.
The sage sees past, present, and future connected in odd and […]
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