asparagus

Another recent work to the Southern Siren, also now known as the Diamondheart, this one takes a metaphor for a vegetable and plays with it a bit. The poet getting playful? What next? Oh, right...okay, you two, carry on. They're so cute...maybe this one is the one?

asparagus

I do not barter love
but prepare it
and place it
before you
like steamed asparagus
with a sweet butter sauce
trusting you like the scent
and taste
and memory
and presentation
and that
the phallic symbolism
of the shape
is not lost on you
for future purposes
I have in mind


William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.