cut a section
stigma
seeds ovaries half flowers
heads buried in wombs
break the woody bread
snake around the waist of the cross the edges burrow
the shadows name bulbs pale green hurry our footsteps into dawn
through the rushes unit small families
straw-colored demands against the furry gray
buildings perennial overtake our place little parts in their aquatic habitats
swim against the current onto our plates
suction digestion planes carry their boxes sell unto us
slice us with a rudimentary blade
fjords tree-like mountains rock-like
weep us with wheat barley maize and rice
divided like sticks of sugar canes
rotting like cavities in teeth
petrol prices rise and fall like the tussock grasses
wind! do you not blow across countries?
pushing classifying grating demystifying elated enthusiastic
stamen bisexual sometimes unisexual or sterile
spike and make
amenity humanity amending repenting
virgin soils
torn or eroded
harvest a berry or capsule
the black seeds of civilization
the lilies forming clumps overcrowd the streets or parks
ornamental in their whorl hasty in their pattern
please help us forget—
how good how precious how sad
a sickness brings
veins marbled on the margins
lights lobed in their printed forms
friendliness perhaps unwise to have cultivated
loneliness the leafless wandering without roots
join hands in apples pears and quinces
the husk of an almond morn
swarm basils thyme sage and parsley over common graves
let the whole of circular life circle
let the panflower prick
petals paper eyes
arms of the dandelion
let scatter all the ears
opposites absences
all directed towards the bloom
when the night rhombic
scatters the oblong feather
we alternate
but towards death
with constancy.