Thelymitra
Sun
pencil shy faces on your buds,
these sweet small rosellas envy
fertile pods bound to the dirt;
blue and purple hair
with your freckles
and magnified names.
sleep through the night till
a steel wedge of sunlight
bares your bloom.
Caleana
Duck
watchmakers, bird watchers,
dainty care to wings and bill,
keel and feet; a dry flock
of tiny paintings twitching
in the breeze.
metronomes of flight,
our applause finds no
echoes in wingbeats;
sing now silence
in the gasping gust.
Calochila
Beard
such bristled wisdom;
this second birth founds
a face brimming with rings.
your mauve strands
(blotting senses)
see me clearly:
i am a toddler
fondling fur.
Nemacianthus
Mayfly
quiet midge with thread legs,
when the season sinks
your focus blurs, slapped
between hands and
crumpled in the air.
Caledenia
Orchids
flowers, just flowers,
with two vain petals
adjusted like minutes;
whose presumption swells?
blossom, can I see
in you the earth?