courgettes, squash, marrow, carrots,
morsel, gobbet, trace of maple syrop, fat
On an onion tuft
Above her, new layers keep arriving;
when the zucchini
And whereto?
borders, journeys, archives, landscapes, reading, time, memory, myth, legend,
time slushes,
staining purple, a few tongues stained, too,
long pick necks pink curling
and blue in the crayfish-stream
The earth's crust shifting — may turn into fields
fire-roasted with some char remaining,
those strata of sour dead.