by Cynthia Etienne
seedling,
In the beginning was the word
The Vine
you bring
you feel
an echo
in your self
separating
and there’s an opening
in the twining reach.
Hear
it is still here.
Here, it is still.
Here
it is in your ear.
Hear it,
it is in your heart.
is anointed, an ointment of Nature
which leaves, its truth
rises, subscribes to the City
embarked on bricks -no tree
sanctions our progress,
though it is to her
we are appointed to.