five

new york aster

along the lower

bay

squirls

red

cardinal

rocks and locks

sjjd

menay cyphers

said what

do you know

field bindweed

you know what they

say

thy sy

doncha?

sew it up

plant the seed

who cares

on the television

they all talk

and so do you

some simple

semblance of Daphnes

but invasive

you may spend all your

lives pulling this one up

and so what?

new york ironweed

star fruit

center point

these genes
never fit me

coconut milk, ginger
sea salt

same
same

you gave me the wrong size genes

softly softly

wash

me

watch me

eat the fruit

sofjej

eduit

cdfiiskjye

field horsetail

don’t tell me

to be someone’s mother

someone’s wife

I scrub my own pots

since the dinosaurs

I eat what I want

and look

see?

can you?

this is more than enough

I say that without edges

with softness

and surrender

sunning my face

eastern redbud

claim my seat

my sea

claim it

as another

thought it is all me

the sea/ seat

my other I

you know has to be

a multiverse

when the rain so

doesn’t stop

and you are on an island

archipelago

not of our imagination

and you have lived on an

other island with no radio

but similar weather

with another I

the sea was not ours

not mine

at all when I was over there

but here it is

now