Defenestrated


This plant grows suspicious of sunlight: fainting
and wilting to dusk. It had been erratic; like
a lambent flame rambling- on account of
the gritty skies and the cataract of
hammering rain the earth has received.
The leaves no longer

find,

a consistent direction
to spread their needle-like arms.

Its phallic body grows restless; to be
or not to be. But to push against the soil,
the roots are aggresive bulls in the mud;

the sap almost bleeding as it stretches
against air, only to be cut by shards
of broken china- that once
sat by the window.

It has been said, the cactus is sturdy
and has outlived the dessert- but
the question

remains:

beyond the orbit of its species,
can it survive in darkness;
in shambles of the soil?


cuRRent...jer  ¶ 1:15 am