The leaking gutter
which has since been fixed
leaves a presence behind.
Of velvet touch and
hair combed back smoothly,
her insidious, creeping,
thickening, presence
is symptomatic of
chlorophyll hard at work.
Combined with the legacy of damp
and a bit of warmth from the sun,
it culminates in the
photosynthetic processing glory
of the plant class “musci”
known to the rest of us
as moss.
Fraser
August 2023