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 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

Gopher in the Sugar Sand. Gomez Preserve Nature Trail, Hobe Sound, Florida.