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beneath the vine

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Vines sculpt spaces as they grow, clinging to and draping across the surfaces they choose to colonise.  

Telephone poles display armloads of Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia ( L.) Planch.)  …

The moose fence along the highway is softened by a curtain of Virgin’s Bower (Clematis virginiana L.) …

Purple grapes, ready to pick, fill the arbour with soft shade… 

 

ripened shadows

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under layered leaves

marbled shadows hang

in cloistered dark

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cool nonchalance

columnar grey intensifies

as grapes grow ripe

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taut green ferments

to purple must

and effervesces air

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even where no surface intercepts

clustered shadows

ready to pick

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© Jane Tims  2011

Written by jane tims

October 17, 2011 at 7:05 am