Ron:
Are we like onions?
Ram:
Well, that's one metaphor.
Ron:
Then perhaps all that exists is what Szymborska calls "the idiotism of perfection".
Linda:
Sounds good to me – better than the skin of discontent . . .
Ahh,
those long, slender leaves
like waxy straws of green
curve down lazily
thickening towards
a papery base.
Ahh,
succulanct pungence -
the beauty of the debased!
Dig towards
your roots
& probe the earth
you branch out
feasting on water
through microtubules
"How much of us is biennial?"
the seed inside me wonders
The Cutting Boards of Time
handle such questions
mincing, slicing, & peeling us
til we'
re stewed
[MAIN]
[ . . .]
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
- 17 -
[18]
[19]
[20]
[21]
[22]
[ . . . ]
Copyright (c) 1985, 2010 by
T Newfields
. All rights reserved.
www.tnewfields.info/LastPoems/onion.htm