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