equal to palm is bamboo
osier, sauvis, rhus
no less esteemed than
purplish-black stems of maidenhair
endrenched rye-grass or lithops or
old arborescence

		other illunimants osmium,
		   tantalum, mercury
			parsimoniously,     called qualia


ebony moths, wrapped around a thin column of space

come wandering thus far....


Lest now,


			under pleached limes
				between violence and contrition

I eternalized half-hunger