frost upon the full blown rose
how then the long and short
not yet full breached
this cusp, the no man's land
this being of what is –
and also, is – what was
all at once transitory
these moments … days …. weeks … months … years
betwixt
summer torch and autumn frost
winter dirge and spring re- births
in the lapse, the pause, the overlap
it be neither there nor here …
… the wherewithal …
to persevere …