Mums and marigolds
and plums in wooden cherry bowls
and the intertidal periwinkles
among the rocks when the water’s low
all serve as variables
through fables, but not parables.
How they coincide is seasonal,
strung in the locks of the ebb and flow.
Everything is impermanent and connected,
everything is impermanent and connected,
everything is impermanent and connected,
everything is impermanent.