Thursday, December 10, 2009

Horti-Cultural Still Lives: RUNNY EYE



runny eye


Spud plants curl and blacken,
leaves shrivel
New potatoes, underground,
have got runny eyes.

Like hurt children, weeping
life with its badness out
Stinking. Infected.
Before they've even grown.


1996 © Wayne D Knoll

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