Poem: What We Call Vegetables: Root

Root

We sat for Cotan
like old grandees,
orange from skin

to core. Carrots
are no fruits. We
fired through earth

the green baize flare
flowering into
Queen Anne’s lace,

and recoiled
into the soil.


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