Japanese Maple -- leaves unfolding. . . (Acer palmatum)  This same tree features in Week VII of the
Picture/Poems permanent collection, with a page called More Leaves: Maple Symmetry and a series
of poems based fractal symmetry rhythms. the lead poem is titled A Die Falls.

...The die comes to rest
on a '3'
but we need a '2' since one of

any thing
makes no difference,

makes no place
for our butterfly, waiting so
patiently till now, to spread its

wings.



(Photograph was made Friday, the 19th of April, 2002)