Wax Botanical

Wax Botanical

Succulents housed in glass prisons
As if to contain their treachery
Their juiciness tempting you,their leaves
Daring you to approach,staring and stark.

Tropical plants in tropical heat
Stifling; You gasp for air, leaving
the palm house through the exit

You return,reproaching yourself
for your feeble temperateness and
Indulge in ebony,banana,papaya,
coconut,mango and bamboo.

You pick 'sativa' chesnuts
Feeding a squirrel from a distance
Her glee so apparent,so thankful
Displaying her feasting in public.