The stiff-petaled cone
squats,
poised in a birdcage of dried needles.
Barbs, the size of small fish hooks,
fail
to capture the plump oval of seed
slipping from the womb of the tree.
This article appears in Project Censored 2013.
A quiet birth
The stiff-petaled cone
squats,
poised in a birdcage of dried needles.
Barbs, the size of small fish hooks,
fail
to capture the plump oval of seed
slipping from the womb of the tree.
This article appears in Project Censored 2013.