A twice blooming tide in California it

was Portuguese sailors who first sailed the Pacific on lilac gardens:

a fragrance dripped through history potent

as South China dye

and the changing colour of Pretoria’s hills.

Spring sentinels in order along suburban

Australian streets and swept through Kathmandu

Valley meeting places.

Each Jacaranda purple as bruises and possibility:

trying to explain a dream

only to realise it’s in another language.