tempest

Have you seen this tub?

Baltimore Free Farm Zine

February Clover

William Thomas

Oh you life forms,

Growing, relentlessly, regardless.

Adaptively, defying the odds- becoming the obstacles

Roots driven into the ground,

Walking creature feets on its surface

Flying insects, like clouds above the decay.

Hawks soar above! Claws gripping tightly the branches

Of trees nearby the aviary,

Where the ducks quack,

Hearts beating, bound with feathers, brooding on eggs

That will be my breakfast and fuel my life form

Which is restless.

Oh you life forms!

Ice forming on your stems and leaves,

Like fallen snow, the crush of frozen clover

Radishes thought long gone still grow so large

That they rise out of the earth begging

To be pulled like weeds,

Thrown into piles unspoken.

Grow life, grow!

You are temporal, didn't you know?

Just seed. Just clones. Just rhizomes.

Digging deeply, trenching, sprouting around

Without my permission. This is the struggle.

Because I will struggle with you.

To raise you, to kill you, to eat you.

Your soil through the sun becomes one

With my body, and its energy makes me

a life form- as the worm, as the clover.

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