the other body
moss-packed napkin
oak bark
tied with a grass hitch
into the package place
oak cupule
scarlet elf cup
the fruiting body
+ by the tomentum
fine down covering
find your edge
laughing little beetle
lie in leaves
with the other body
ascospores
rotifers
rot mothers
yeasts in their single cells
what space is claimed is shared
so breathe
+ press outwards
to the edge
+ its nociceptors
tapetum lucidum
laps all around
yes, moss-cosied one
robin’s pincushion
grows the gall
through the gill
houseplants
senecio! O green
orb, surpreme drip
crying solero shots
mother-in-law’s tongue
folded green biltong
brazen cheeky thing
the funnest ant slide
spider froths coy
each day a new wig
with her squid-wings
venus threw a lure
kite of chilli flakes
buoyed pot, its plant
is so whisk-like
it is stiff peaks
flytrap shrivels
from bright reptile
to bunch of keys
mother-in-law’s claws
fur coat, no bite
pressed along a scissorblade
generation after
generation after
spider after
still life with mangelwurzel
mangelwurzel rows upon
scoubidous drag atlantic
thalasso for massage
the child once spoke
carrotwater panacea
+ phare ouest cola
do you remember
3 young sailors
far as nova scotia
or he who kicked
his silage machine
+ became it
the devil Salamander
nests in a blue roof
madame skins a rabbit
the kidneys still in
+ the tongue
hinting at a lost tongue
a belly skims earth
rolling grass lint
bright adder or toad
+ the rabbit in the barn
incisor more than socket
yet sweet lozenges
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Flo Reynolds is a poet, artist and literature events producer. Recent poems have appeared in The White Review,Stand,The Interpreter's House, amberflora, Magma, Datableed and more. You can find Flo online at floreynolds.com.