Sensation of the supermarket
I can go this far
you're curling & wild
almost dying in the car ten seconds
out of water, you don't travel
well. Your smell is not sweet
but itchy, like sex in the woods
rarely does one purchase
such a smell. Usually stumbled
on, remembered. So while you're almost
vanishing, I'll say we were spontaneous
How did such white meet such fuchsia
& then hot pink. A smattering
of intelligent antennae
a scribble of brains
amidst the curly blossoms
and then thin slim pods
future flowers, it's clear
you've got a way to go. Anyone can
look at you real fast & say
she's everything. I see cactus,
I feel thorny prickles, no one
knew your name, no one in the fruit
stand at 9 & 9G. I rode home
with your flavors on my lap.
& I say this for wildness
even as it's dying
it's very very powerful