Wednesday, October 20, 2004 ;
11:15:00 PM
Yellow Pitcher Plant
flowering stomach
scroll of leaf
covered with small honeyed
warts by which the seely fly
is lured to sloping
pastures at the trumpet's lip
till grazing downhill
the fly finds the underbush
of hairs casually pushed through
has closed behind -
a thicket of lances - sharkteeth -
trap
oh alas!
it stumbles on, falling
from chamber to chamber
within the green turret
making each loud
with the buzz of its grief
and finally slipping into
the oubliette itself
- pool that digests protein -
to become mere
chitinous exoskeleton
leftovers
of a salted petal
an enzyme's cruelty
every day is a new day ♥
