To Spring

Eggs. More eggs. Sarsaparilla root, ginseng,
black cohosh, black pearls, bloodstone, rose quartz, jade,
malachite, spires and steeples, maypole rings,
Shiva's stone lingam deflowering maids.
Vitamins C, B6, B12, and E,
Old George all baked: gingery communion,
or just pomegranates, Persephone,
not green at all. Or fortified for one
last shot. Or castrated for Artemis:
roses, genitals waving in the wind.
The sacrifices, fires, masks, all for his
seed, her hips. Simple things, so intertwined:
the basal charts, the egg whites, all these tales
of storks, prayers, EPTs, lances, cups, grails.

copyright 2003 Eric Gardner