A Garden Kiss

london paris

nice florence

rome

the museum tour

matisse chagall

picasso monet

caravaggio as best

i can recall of canvas

next year who knows

what will be left to color

after four weeks

of travel good is

a return home

to the embrace

intoxicating caress

of a place that feels

for these few hours

ancient and safe

to curving gardens

to fertile wet soil

to the beneath  

sustaining what grows

to the moment

of the deep kiss

one sky one earth

intimate in our belief

in each other

bound in our touching

attending to whispers

giving all we got

lost together

among these flowers