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Naughty Greens

Basil du Toit


The rude vegetables are up to

no good again, succumbing

to irresistible inflations, their

growth-tips, tautly congested,

full of pregnant suggestion

and promise; mutating buds,

tinglingly alive with genetics,

obey (with slight infractions)

their guiding principle, bristle

with fresh implementations

of themselves; rooted in dung-

sweet earth, they reach their

swollen extensions up to my

window and give me the finger.


Featured at The Red Wheelbarrow on 24 November 2022


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