Christmas Trees At Smithfield Central Doctors Poem by Diana Thoresen

'...in spring, the most delicate feathery yellow of plumes and plumes and plumes and trees and bushes of wattle, as if angels had flown right down out of the softest gold regions of heaven to settle here, in the Australian bush.'
— D. H. Lawrence, Kangaroo

Paraboloid totems of evergreen hope, upside down
Sparkling white trinkets, sparkling white dears
''What do we need to do now? ''
You ask

I got my husband's winged blue stone gift around my neck, a dragonfly
Isn't my green dress an evergreen kingly shroud?
Both stormy and luminous, the cuts on my arms are still caked in dried blood
You are sad: your heart bleeds into mine with a bit of emerald dust and ruby red sunrises

The Doctor is the Rose; I am the Flame
You are all marble, Plato, self-contained
I am grotesque, decaying, Lilith-born
My scars are trim poodles
Whose slightly wolfish eyes
...just for you...
Will bleed a blazing cornucopia of yellow wattle sprigs

Doctor, your heart is a gold mine and joyous as Spring