First, let's look at bamboo qualities.  Quick growth.  Flexibility.  Comes in several colors.  A system of rhizomes can crowd the stage in quick order.   Poems overtake a page in a way that prose doesn't.  Besides, I've always said poems have rhizomes.   
Bamboo is catching on in the kitchen -- plates, bowls, platters, table runners.  Even silverware. Floors.  Of course, steamers.  Oh those rhizomes.
 
 
science in the unlikeliest places
ReplyDeleteone lifts a fork and is subject
predicate and conjunction
out of the tundra marches a bear
hungry and roaring for spring
footsteps unheard, arms empty
no sign of gallantry
in the lures left behind