Poem: Slug on a Root

 

Slug on a Root

 

amber-orange cedar,

lacquered by the moisture

of a dawn-dipped storm,

 

a cragswym* embraces it,

indolent of glide,

trailing its sheen of rainbows.

 

no hurry

in the swan-soft stride,

agile as an elixir of genesis.

 

no qualm in its living gleam,

riding a brushstroke of creation

out of muddy oubliettes.

 

sleek and docile,

oozy and patient,

proud on surgent stalks--

 

never to harden

or fossilize from its purpose--

this primordial adventurer

luminous of colors to adorn,

to effloresce.

as it plies its utopian canvas.

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6/27/24 ... someday it will make sense... 

cragswym =  cragswoman/cragsman

wym = gender neutral for woman/man   

e.g. "history of mankind" becomes "history of wymkind"

fireman/firewoman becomes firewym

--7/3/22   "poise" replaces "motion"

7/23/22  "adorn" replaces "adorning"/"surgent" replaces "surging"

8/7/22   added comma after "glide"

changed structure of last paragraph

8/19   "rides" replaces "rode" ... changed last paragraph

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