Poem: What We Call Vegetables: Bud

What We Call Vegetables

Bud

Not rose, lotus,
delphinium,
nor aster, but

curtly called
cauliflower
we are cut

from flowering
and curdle into
a bunch of fever,

fractured crystals,
edible fractals.


Comments

William said…
This is amazing.
Jee Leong said…
Thanks, Shahwar and Bill!

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