Melissa Eleftherion
from huminsect series
Railroad teeth a lateral hangman
Coronal lightning the chant of algae
Dinoflagellate geometry
Spiderwasp flick of the wrist
And the sea cucumber catapults.
Vertebrae* * *
this rodent my eye
living thing a bright line
the same true for bees
in their Dionysian drama
the old bonds –
“leaf by leaf alchemy”
our skin a vegetable patch
unsure of this animal
cataract – a spongy grammar
