Florida Love Vine
Maya Ellenson is keen on creating unconventional poetry and prose, inspired by what the moment reveals.
Love Vine of South Florida or Cassytha Fliformis
Love-Vine Alchemy
Love-vine entangled
with live oaks
in Florida hammocks
some call Witch’s Hair-
perhaps from the times of
Auto-Da-Fé –
trapped in all-consuming
demonizing concepts
devouring the Earth
more than so called vampire plants
this love-vine transmutes
the sap ingested from the shrub it twines
into a healing substance
the witch’s hair
auburn like embers
tinged with golden tones
of somewhat dwindling autumn palette


