The Web Poetry Corner - Frank Valentyn - The gene for digestive juice
The gene for digestive juice
by
Frank Valentyn
The cabbage I ate had no valid death certificate
I ate nuts still capable of germinating
A peach that would have realised tree-being
To climb in with opinions nourished
By what they all had garnered from the earth
Attenuating my tenuous connection with its surface
In the altitude of my ethical extemporisations
Themselves an outgrowth of the earth's crust
Growing towards distant starbirth
Going home