Florida Landscape with a Gator
Maya Ellenson is keen on creating unconventional poetry and prose, inspired by what the moment reveals.
Perfect Day in Florida
Nature’s Silk Painting
By the pond
a Florida gator is dreaming his lurid gator dreams
under a bottlebrush tree
in Spring madness
its crimson red pigments
spattered across the silky sky
as in Japanese painting
ornate fragments composed
suggestive of immensity all around
yet pictorially self-contained
it also shows
a fountain flowing up and down
with water beads scattered
dancing
all of a sudden
a singular droplet
comes into sight
perfectly oval
paused in the air
holding the Earth
inside its gold-leaf belly