The Structure of a Flower:
Stigma
Pastoral etymology,
Terrain of human and nonhuman elements
Sun. The trees. I in the poem.
Sentences are not dead. Cloth.
Hinges. At the core a loam.
Resonances between books, between
branches inside a letter.
An archaeological dig to uncover origins
of the Leaf-like. Self-like mouth.
Folds of the tongue a root branching out toward the sky.
Another doubling organism. Seed pods,
as genitals. When it was mud. When it was
the trees I have seen.
The Structure of a Flower:
Filament
Not a mirror
Air / water / fish / bird,
a compass.
Heat and rain
of the human body.
A site of ruin.
Think genomes
doubled-over.
An abandoned
house grown
over with plants. Lists.
Alphabets.
Folded out. Transcribing.
Shadows of birds fly over.
9:35 A.M.
