Still Life with Life Still? (Poem and Photograph)

Still Life with Life Still?

Not for long. The blossoms
Soon will discover their blood

Miraculously has changed

Itself to tap water. And their roots

Have voted to remain
Behind with their own kind.

The fruit, fortunately,

Does not yet know how to scream.

Yet, if you listen very carefully,

You may hear it attempt

To sing.

                        -- Si Dunn



From the forthcoming book of poems and photographs by Si Dunn:
The One-Trillionth Picture of the Eiffel Tower
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