The future of vegetables
Mary Kasimor
mud yearns shapeless
and no bedtime stories
The darkness smothers us
with the empty carcasses
dancing away
dancing further away
playing with the air in advance
the man in charge
with cups of blood and healing
undecided genes stand on their heads
truths uttered
their brains rattle the sheep
the future looks at nothing
what was in the desert?
the sand is coming as parts
of parts wasting away
the apples sleep until noon
occasionally aware
they are on a journey
here we gather the future of vegetables
the outcast tells the secrets to every one
the things we are thinking
the children’s deaths we are counting
the children costumed as cartoon characters
they pretend they are goats
Mary Kasimor’s recent poetry collections are The Landfill Dancers (BlazeVox Books, 2014), Saint Pink (Moria Books, 2015), The Prometheus Collage (Locofo Press, 2017), Nature Store (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), Drink Me (BlazeVox Books, 2019) and the chapbook disrobing iris (above/ground press, 2019).