"Budding Tulip" by Kumiharu Shimizu
“This is the day to bite your tongue…”
Psychic tip of the day,
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This is the day to bite your tongue…
in giving mood, attention to sound,
body perceives an extraneous stimuli,
ears – long enough to spot hypnotizing
tom-tom in the cartridge on the
flowerbed;
head? – how big or not at all, while
everything needed for ravishing life –
just water and strength – touching the
roots
fertilizing talk.
For now, this is the day to bite your
tongue…
the first page/ copying the manners of
twins around, mirroring colors (why not
orange?),
the form, the legend: where/why came
from,
a membrane to pull on for air ventilated
truth
thru a canal from underground savvies
bulbs
between the roots and stems to propagate,
carry weight to new territory
meta-morphing silent budding tulips…
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