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Taproot
By Mara Adamitz Scrupe
Featured in
RABBLE REVIEW No.2
Page: 64
It’s rowboats slapping when the wind kicks up
keeps me calm
It’s Dow Chemical’s pink plant glow passed slow
along the CSX tracks if it’s tree
I choose dwarf rough & crippled
Prunus/ slight nursed looking
Thing if it’s stab my veins eight digs deep
amaranth ream/ it’s metaphysics
gnawing gnawing
I knock my knuckles against the wall pearls
fall I gather them up if it’s taper
Thick it’s snout down dominant
& digging from which all others sprout/ a living
Plough a columnar shaft a sweet swelling
out from the base
& back again to the capital/ volcanic
Menhir vesicular granite/ one takes root
while the other mounts
budding burgeoning
