Blurred Leaves in the Foreground

The first time it looked different-

blurred leaves in the foreground

while sharpfocused lovers strolled hand in hand

or ran through the garden behind-

the green frame or screen relating,

especially as color got better

the truer to nuance and shading,

an Eden to the mind.

Nude without being naked,

and new as the leaves implied,

the lovers could go in the garden

where angles were green and wide,

swinging along to the music

of Mozart or some other tune

and God wasn't needed or lions with lambs

to show how they felt inside.

Then like most innovations

repeated time after time-

if there ever had been a meaning,

it changed as if for a rhyme-

the lovers were always in focus

and the foreground blurred as they came

fresh from fruit tasting, into God's eye,

covered with leaves, like shame.