Grafted
Two parallel saplings grow to the side of a path :
…………………………………. on the right a flaking gray pole : to the left
scarred white bark. Three feet up they lean in
…………………………………. grapple graft in a bulbous striped cyst so
meaty it could burst with a prick a unified thing
…………………………………. the cross piece in the letter H androgynous
yet able to disentangle into two selves with one
…………………………………. difference : white continues in a direct line
above gray’s roots while gray persists unfazed
…………………………………. above white’s lower trunk. Intolerable?
Bizarre? If you dare dispute biological truth plot
…………………………………. the parabolic equation leave two Us co-
joined : one upright one upside down axes flipped
…………………………………. leaves mixed in the sap’s slippery switch.
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