The jasmine hedge beside the courts
has been attacked by secateurs,
hacked and pruned by gardeners
to geometric, boxlike order;
calyces incised by shears
exude bruised aphrodisiacs,
nycthemeral, sense-shifting fragrances.
Above, a slightly buckled moon
backlights pearl-petalled cirrus banks,
illuminating drifts of dying sepals
on the pebbled border.
Planetoids arc overhead
across the arbitrary net, simulating
Neptune's moons, or Jupiter's.
Tennis by moonlight
© Copyright: Jena Woodhouse, 2007
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