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
Gomez Preserve Nature Trail, Hobe Sound, Florida
Maya Ellenson
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
