So maybe I am an eco-adept who’s been
tardy recognising it - and yet this analogy
for ‘christmas lights’ split the atom for me
The plant genus is Cereus - we’ve lots of
‘em climbing trees - but more particularly
a pergola where that display now begins
A night-flowering cactus bloom has scent
on wings, believe me, yet viewing it in full
flush is an utterly enervating experience
Couple that with this flowering happening
uniquely on Xmas Day and you’ll see my
sense of christmas lights as symmetry -
Feel a deeper meaning in the ecology of
natural events - make a burlesque of the
crude attempts to synthesise such lights
And think - we didn’t need ‘buy’ anything
resembling gaudy decorations ‘dressing’
an idea of spiritual sense - or imagine it
It was there and every element of reality
we’d ever comprehended accompanied
it gladly; and that’s just commencement
Next we’ll see the fruit grow liberally into
a richness of that essence - whether we
choose to share or feast won’t weight
A burden on the conscience now freed
© 27 December 2014, I. D. Carswell
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