the awareness

of that mighty struggle

bats and Characidae

 

all bearing fruit

like pomegranate seeds

in blood-like vigilant deeds

 

fruit-bearing fruit

carcinoma unfolding

creations gift  beholding

 

obstacles rising

from man’s industrious spew

credit where credit is not due

 

tied and strangled

vines of insulation

hearing old soliloquy’s narration

 

Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again, and make

Perpetual life, or let hour be but

A year, a month, or a season’s root in jut

 

Nuts fearing the great chill

and the little plant that could

Kazakhstan’s dandelion of rubberwood

 

hand-cuff tendrils

knotting until strangulation

Awareness in gestation