O Again: 3. O Radix

O AGAIN

3.
O Radix (misread)

O Root.
Before coffee, I read:
Root of Jesse standing as a sign 
among the peonies. 
Huh.

People, not peonies.
Had peonies once.
Tried to do them in
because botrytis blight.
They kept sprouting.

Radix, root, radish, etc.
If you plant a grafted apple tree
and bury the graft by mistake, 
the original takes over. 
Radical thought.

April prompt #34: ANIMAL OR PLANT

The last one.

 

April prompt #34

ANIMAL OR PLANT

Janice’s #3

Goldfinches edge the lawn.

Yellow blobs of daffodils

whine among bare branches.

April is over, and then some.

Now, again,

I must begin

to write normal poems.