ALMOND BLOSSOM / MANDORLO

oil on canvas 100 x 70 cm

€ 1.100,00

Almond Blossom Haiku

by Andrew Lansdown

I

     Bees

i

Such magnificence

even the bees are absorbed—

blossoming almond.

ii

The more blossom

it has, the more bees it hasn’t—

 almond tree.

iii

Flowering almond—

what apiarist could provide

enough beehives?

II

   Colours

i

Collectively

tending towards pink—the white

almond petals.

ii

An inference of pink

in the almond petals strewn

whitely on the lawn.

iii

Last almond petal—

difficult to determine

if it’s white or pink.

III

    Compost

i

I put off mowing

beneath the flowering almond

for another week.

ii

Intermingled with

the clippings from the catcher—

torn almond petals.

iii

So ethereal,

yet even they become compost,

the almond petals.

First published in Quadrant magazine.

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