Story of Body and Spirit

PUBIC, crotch, groin: words flare in creature’s attention,
ENNUI, lost purpose drags on spirit’s fragile state.
UNDUE focus might choose body, might choose spirit, thus not
EXCEL at story of body and spirit, thus pick threads from aa seamless garment.

Flinty Finn MacCool

FLINTy Finn MacCool,
FLAILs his blistered hand, nurses wound, imbibes
HAZEL juice, is transformed, a Salomon among druids-stands out for wisdom like
RUMBA dancer at a minuet.

Excerpt from the book "At Home In Nature, A User's Guide" by Mary Choate and Aaron Brachfeld, which cover the significant of hazelnuts and the salmon of wisdom in the story of Finn MacCool.
Excerpt from the book “At Home In Nature, A User’s Guide” by Mary Choate and Aaron Brachfeld, which cover the significant of hazelnuts and the salmon of wisdom in the story of Finn MacCool.

Ambiguous

He’d hardly
BEGUN to grow when he found himself fully-
GROWN. Time and tide waited not for this
UNCLE, the one who was considered the
SAFER relative, the one who never did any harm.

I Know

UNCLE Claudius knows not that I know.
BEGUN, with father’s ghost appearing: dread,
GROWN now, till no redemption path remains.
SAFER to be born a serf to serfs with no ambition.