blinked at gray green stems freshly birthed from hot brown earth
soaked in supple curse bled from solar fingertips
muttered derelict psalm hailed from soft blue bodies
enraptured by the presence of THREE WHITE DAFFODILS
inebriated by the nectar that once ran through their insides.

held my cousin in my hand, his six pricked legs caressed my palm.
black exoskeleton against my white flesh. he is a mechanical animal.
and what does he possess? to ponder his interior is to x-ray his insect meat.

summoned new hate up from black soil,
consumed and excreted by subterranean serfs.
harmed by the unrelenting sky, the trees bend over and yield at the master’s whip.
witnessed birds peck at the earth’s flesh
and the earth reciprocate by sending hungry teeth after them

salamander finger stroked the newborn chlorophyll sprout
whilst an old man’s breath kindly warmed my ear.
klompen stomp on papier mache dirt earths,
she shields her inside from her offspring.
when I stomped, I disturbed the underground dwellers.

I felt a tiny red heart beating inside my own when
I just looked at a beauty’s yellow eyes.
puffs of virtuous white bloom to purify the clearing
with innocently ostentatious displays of fertility.

fertility rites in springtime, extending invitations for simple procreation.
mother holds fertility marches in her humid backyard.
beauty is the immodest offering of reproductive organs.