041521b

 

each new leaf

stretches its arms

the room dims

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winter sun burns 

begonias like nobody's business 

move away from the window

082220b

 

organ cactus harvesting triffid overlords

061920

Monstera

unfurls a new 2-ft leaf

bright green lace

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from the pot

the root snakes

across the porch 

041220c

Temp's dropping:
The jade plant curses us
From the front porch,
Ice crystals piercing
Its veins,
The cat briar fumbles at the latch
With stiffening tendrils,
And its last life,
The sweet olive tree,
Clothed in wintry flowers,
Grins and stretches out its arms,
Inside, I turn another page,
My cooling tea.

033020b

yesterday
I snuck in to the office
7 am
lights off/no one home
my thirsty plant
The Long Vine of the Law
helpless before me
gave it all it could take
then I left

020920b

the Monstera's penile root
penetrates the soil
of a nearby pot
engenders new life
that shatters
the vessel of its birth
and pokes monstrous fruit
up into the air

110619

Serving root beer at the reception
for the delegation from Vegetaria
a natural misunderstanding
a blunder of interstellar proportions

during the resulting war
terrestrial forests
concealed the advance guard
of the invasion force
until it was far too late

101519b

plants return
to the greenhouse
welcome home

081219c

window-box treatment

You'll wear that, young man, till you learn to treat plants with respect!

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lights on for the plants

sun comes out

from behind the clouds

112818

sun rises
plants start their calisthenics
turning all day

110218b

Le Creuset pot
now holds a potted plant
here is another

102918

delicious monster
in the house misses tropics
wants a bigger pot

070218

vine marches on
so long it needs a name
how bout Hannibal

041718f

venomous plants
seem almost too alive here
dogs are immune

040218

spray of blooms
last gasp of a potted plant
short on water

111317b

plant
marches on
across the desk

111217c

green
vanes unfurl
face the sun