TO SEED
I swim
in the hot sea
the sharks
making
a cup
of tea
the dolphins
having a siesta
and the octopus
(whose name is Alice)
has
contrived a garden
that is
itself an
eighth wonder
shells and pearls
fragments of coral
and
sea cucumbers
something so
Imperial in all
her
propensities
(expanding to Empire
the germ
of an
idea).
poems 2 die for 