raucous freshness

digging toward center,
the seed i

swallowed: your image.

every goddamn root
splits through my red and black--
veins, arteries, corpuscles,

the machine of the earth allegorized in flesh,
the raw root-network of pulses
that unfurls, monstrous, of its own accord,

my body, become your ground.
eyes beating blind, vision ribboned with the
impulse
of your juice:

this
very heart
is yours.