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Absolutely Revolting
Poem
by Andrew Sant •
November 2014, no. 366

This cactus looks as if, on a reef,
it could be neighbour to sponge, equally at ease
under the sea – or strange as some tentacled hydra
on the window ledge, free
of quickening leaves.

 


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