Snowdrop (the 54th part):
Stirrings
A crystal of water
caught in an anvil
of stalk and leaf
collapses, drips.
Cold granules
compacting roots
shift at the probe
of new white growth.
Within a paper
scabbard, a point
of leaf stretches
its lignin bones.
In darkness, guests
in their cells waken,
click their chemical
cascades, breathe.
A mess of flesh
deep in the bulb
forms: sepal, petal;
stamen, pistil.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
NaPo 07 #11: Stirrings
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