Garden of Earthly Delights

By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 07, 2019

 

Garden of Earthly Delights

That wonderful garden
Back yard in East Boston
Long narrow and verdant
An urban delight
The empty pedestal
Calling for a monument
Evoking the gods
Some pagan diety
Recalling ancient Rome
Asked my pride and joy
Step up and strike a pose
Her magnificent red hair
So much younger then
Full of hope and dreams
Now a life well lived
Looking back on
That frolicking interlude
Swirling all around
Torrid torsion
Caught from every angle
Tornado of love
Such a twister
Dorothy from Kansas
With Toto in Oz
That’s not me she said
Showing the image
Tweaked and printed
From so long ago
Holding fast to truth
Trucking no deception
Then and now
As always I
Wallow in romance
Heart full of fantasy
Remembering
Astrid on a pedestal
A tableau vivant
Precious moment so
Far far away