Saturday, September 3, 2022

Buttons

the hike persists as burrs

hitched to my pants legs, spiked

green buttons — I don’t own

clothes with buttons, mute

gaping mouths — I strip the hard

pips to the floor of my friend’s

car to weather winter’s heater

funk — dehydrate, ferment

incubate — come spring, come

thistle threading her car’s interior

come fungi sporing, invisible

mites, robin song, oak leaves

unfurling, scrawny wide-

mouth yawning bear


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