pucker

∴ frost-cracked soil dreams
loam-grown poems
syllables planting blades
fluid lines furrow and water
seeds buried, flourish in syntax
dods of clod-like soil break open
branches of meaning
gnarled and wild-reaching
tongues that spring, rend, and bind
harrows respire, loosing—
words—sprout—scatter their weight
pucker of earth
dawn-bound, the earth dreams awake ∴