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.
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