Red Tulip

By sheltering amid the daffodils
a red tulip has outwitted the deer
who know it as a spring delicacy
for the buds of the tongue not for the eye

the flower has no cunning but to be
just as it is, spring from the dreamless bulb,
not resurrection, just another turn,
we decorate it with our dreaming sight

the wind blows and the tulip bows and sways,
not a…