ACCEPT ME

Accept me
in my rock garden
as I'm planted in a terrain
by rhododendrons
in the dizziness of the sun
pardon me
as first light at daybreak
opens in its luminous horizon
as birds fly over the poplars
and my words praise
the Evergreen and Maple
waking in Autumn's shadows
by a trace of wild roses
in a murmur of my riffs
of smooth jazz.