brown leaves of maidenhair in the toilet

beginning with porcelain

teases the rudeness

of overpunctuality

from a well tamed house plant

when it drapes

new limbs oer

the body of peat

& algal rinse

pools in the underplate

so it ends

the training braids

the fern diddlies

the spider bobs

all in due course

perfidy excused

by latent germ burst

as growth grows

passes us by

while we die

in the lime light of plant genii

toxically gendered

overslept

holding breath

for a pope's visit

for a more stuffed cookie

fore a love more permanent

than worm filled dirt