Will Surely Fade

just yesterday
starlike they were splayed
trumpeting the sun's yellow
from proud standing stems of onion green

the daffodils today
shrink toward the soil
in shades of brown already
becoming earth before they touch
its humus layer
just now sinking to darker humidities

in the warmth of coming summer
it can be felt that the sun too
once turned black and moist
cycling for three seasons
and returning at dawn

Ready Set

Newspaper said the pressure cooker that exploded

at the finish line was carefully set with

nails, ball bearings, and screws

        planted with a black duffle bag

Today I sifted red soil into a pot

turned in leaf compost and dark humus

collected from the forest floor

last I soaked it down and

        set a seed within 

Once

Once I was a pig

but I ate myself for breakfast

            fried

then grew up into me

Once I was a seed of a sunflower

but I chewed me up and spit my hull

in the sand of the home team’s dug out

and struck out

Once I was a dream

shared by two navels sweating together

                 pressed

but then I came