Wikipedia Poem, No. 470
“A map for a new respiratory system. / Nitrous oxide replaced by tear gas. / Our head and face boundaries collapse. // Now: cut across the canvas.” Theodoros Chiotis
if not changing then
flowering but coiled
around one's jaw
pruned by flowerheads
climbing from thoughtful
pink illusions outside-in
size color everything everywhere grown
out of my heads (climbing despite
mainland macrophylla here in america
which only grows in dangerous popular culture
the dangerous species is its own meaning
some crumpled syrian estate
pruned into blush red
flowering plants in japan korea crimea
our ashen mainland
