Vocation

Steve Galiani Steveg01@sbcglobal.net

daybreak finds me

the freshest of flowers

dew-soaked, opening slowly

to the lighting sky.


awake

and

present

petals trembling

awaiting my lovers

hummingbirds

and bees.


instead

shaken

by stomping

then heedlessly crushed

under frankenstein bootsteps

of fatuous commerce.