Jacaranda mimosifolia, also known as the fern tree

Arbor

In the language of raindrops
lilting on fern-bellied leaves,

a jacaranda is conversing with the sea.
Filigree branches weave words & mist,

which blossom into questions, lost
in translation by the tides.

Answers come not by way of the clouds,
but in threading the filaments of rain:

in this ancient art of seeking & weaving
we are wrought & weathered,

waiting to brace the weight
of a thundering sky.

– Jenevieve Carlyn Hughes

Published in Amethyst Review, February 2021.