On the steps

your succulent arm
i'll plant it in my garden
and watch it grow
to whole new being

same
be
i


more whole than others
whose branches fall off then die

we can
regenerate tissue from a stemcell
we can
clone a leaf

is that a human dream ?

Man grown
from a preserved nail?



my dinosaur age plant
grows straight spiral sky stretched fingers
nursing bundled up baby plants

we have
increasing numbers of branches
and bureaucreatic systems
middle management is all there is


at maximum capacity
they flower

completely changing
their age old appearance

no more
bundles

i once forced a spiral shaped object
into a cardboard box
box tore
but carried
through the rain
before crumbling to useless shreds
of brown matter
ants eating in the sun