Alien Pods Are Here
This new growth has a look
well,
if you open up a book,
to name,
identify,
how would Michaux classify?
These shoots
whose tendrils topical
mimic something from the tropical.
Their shapes do not allude
to final form after the food
and sun and rain
have completed their quatrains.
Isosceles spikes
showing rain-forest hues
will careen into green
with chlorophyll use.
Their contrast will lessen.
They’ll settle and still
with leaves fully grown
into warm Summer’s fill.
Then all heed the call
to shut down,
crisp and Fall.
So, stop and see
the growth in things
else you’ll have to wait
until the next Spring.