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

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