The Fern in the Sun

Vandal Poem of the Day: March 17, 2020

 by Rosamund Stanhope

The fern in the sun
Is the cryptogam.
Frond and fibre rise
From humus and haulm,
The leaf and the loam
Work their synthesis.

The fern in the shade
Is the spire of God,
Esoteric, immune.
And from this I discern
The essence locked in the bloom,
The world in the word.
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