Chlorophyll

Chlorophyll

You caught me like light in a watery jamjar
Spiralling lazy light reflections all over my skin and I
Sipped you in, sitting
Drenched now; soaked to my cells
Soaked to my stem in yellow

Who’s to say I don’t have a plantheart?
After all we’re both ribbed and veined
One has indigo, other green
But look at the branching and we’re nearly the same
You pound chlorophyll I pump blood
Don’t think I’d mind very much being part of this landscape
I don’t think I’d mind at all
Better than endless human endeavour, desirous fever
Reach out, reach out can’t reach that far, reach out grasping, gasping
Choking
Reaching out everlasting and never quite having
Two steps forward and your feet fall off.

There’s a tangled bird’s nest being built round my brain
Constructed out of everything that’s supposed to show you’re sane
But none of these official letters, sticks and shopping lists,
Dates and grades and twigs,
None of it’ll remain

It’s ridiculous

How the blades of grass between my feet are called that nasty name
When I’ve never seen such a green
It looks like life to me
It feels how I should be

I want the Sun to drench my skin down to the soul
Till I’m bleached new
Till my violet veins turn lime
And I swear I’ll sprout roots from my feet
Trigger shoots, tangled vines
Slowly sown and sewn into an ivy-woven garden
Until I’m knotted to the fabric of this world

Hair strands become stems, aerial roots, shoots shooting upwards
Viridian ferns surreally shocked in technicolors electric
Seeking you out
Snaking for saturation
Sunlight surge as if through hosepipe in reverse
Until I’m steeped in chlorophyll
I will unfurl
And that is when I will become alive.