Ungoverned shapes - 7 april 2020

The girl with a daisy head

has white petal-hands,

budding capillaries crossing her arms

tuber-shaped nostrils

bloated ivies wrapped around ears and elbows

The daisy flower with a girl’s head

has drowsy eyelids,

a scent of gushing blood,

her hand-shaped leaves are eerie purple year-long

inviting bees and also dreaming, two girls

learned to see and smell, to live with roots

unburied, reinventing body-word

accordion-compassion-flow-the leaf-hand cannot rewrite it all

some forms will be cut

photosynthesis grafted onto hope

New York City, March 2017. Source: Olimpia Mosteanu