girl with a rose   no abstractions cloud her eye    (hope, history, do and don't)    (terror, tomorrow, want and won't) she sees and doesn't wonder why   no symbols here, no paradigms    (truth and beauty, heaven and hell)    (man and nature, stories to sell) she sees, releasing space and time   no words intrude, no chattering names    (species, genus, flower, rose)    (an ornament, a thing that grows) she sees no it, no me, no shame no thing, no other, no thanks, no please    (her gaze gives birth to galaxies)     © Michael Fleming Casper, Wyoming August 1981