Root Cap

mitosis

how she surrenders is the persistence of the whole we endure
in this division born by the increase of what only in death
looks to me like a union

a daughter cell

consent

This is what we try for: the fecund emptiness
why we die for sex. Our immortality
nothing but the love of it.

an atom of hydrogen

in scarcity Immortality in abundance Death
first we yield then we sleep—after—an awakening
dark extravagance! the surcease of increase—we are
when aroused to conceive what is denied by sleep
the dearth of one “buried” in the other’s superfluity

a common ancestor