Eternal Elder

                                        Beside the clearing beside the water

                                        Seeking dappling damp footwet and limp

                                                Forever here as the galactic centre

                                        Elder knows all, old woman

 

                                        Tendergreen lengths new week-in, week-out

                                        Saving flexibility in sapped strength

                                                On a mission renewed year-in, year-out

                                        Elder meets at arm's length

 

                                        Thicket low hefty abandon whiteshake

                                        Trafficking heaving pollen for a million blue beady eyes

                                                Five in petal, protecting alive and dead

                                        Elder has the charm

 

                                        On the final cusp down among the grasses

                                        Jew's ears flick and spring long into frost

                                                Giving on in queenly afterlife potency

                                        Elder is eternal