arugula

Let's bless the green bits, and the sink that cleans them.

Eating these, our atoms wear sweaters of chlorophyll

and cozy up to one another, making messages pass faster,

as green woolen atom elbow nudges green woolen atom side.

Let's go ahead now and acknowledge that emphasized in winter

is the oneness of objects, so that our green mixes are comprised

not only of arugula and mustard greens, but are made also of

towel, cat, birch, telephone, right arms, left feet, chagrin and glee.

Let's not forget what these greens mean!

Let's improve our memory by cramming

our heads with the stuff, fit like cotton balls,

dyed, extended, covered in leaves and gleaming,

around our silly sleepy hemispheres.

Take in everything, weeds and nets included,

and digest yourself into them.