I plant Her
on dark roots-
stars must darkly gestate
if they are to blaze.
I push myself
out of my stem-
blooms must have
that narrow becoming
before they open.
I take Her captive
abuse Her
with a savage passion.
The earth must be broken
towards fertility.
All this I do to myself
knowing nothing of it
as She ravishes me
with a relationship
of absence.
