Delicate
White green
Sunlit tendrils
Carolina jasmine
Almost kiss
Drooping
Furry spruce

Small stone
Celtic cross
Shelters 
Under
Plum yew
-	Cephalotaxis harringtonii 
According to Woody
Who rocks gently
In his rustic chair
Next to me
On our half sunken
Back porch

Overhead fan spins
Slow
Water
Gurgles and plinks
Jug to jug
Into the tiny pool
Harboring broken pottery
Ceramic frog
Wire duck
Fat squat plaster bird
Speared ferns
Purple tradescantia
Red hearted coleus
And one small 
But growing
Japanese maple

Red breasted robin
Pauses
On the half collapsed
Bamboo fence
While her chicks wait
Open mouthed
In the nest
In our porch rafters

The small simple
Richness
Of the world
From our back porch
Is too vast, too complex
For one poem