Flowers of Darkness
Slowly the night blooms, unfurling
Flowers of darkness, covering
The trellised sky, becoming
A bouquet of blackness
Unending
Touched with sprigs
Of pale and budding stars
Soft the night smell
Among April trees
Soft and richly rare
Yet commonplace
Perfume on a cosmic scale
I turn to you Mandy Lou
I see the flowering night
Cameo condensed
Into the lone black rose