-deep & in

scratch hard
your fingers find sand
& green grown of
ground rock and sun
tough roots twist under
thin layer above
for what seems ever in
place where i found
love, my life
nothing like years gone
only deep roots thrive
out there, in here
vines spread wide
shooting as they will
unseen, lawless
acorns fall faster than we
collect, birds, squirrels &
i fight for reasons my own
chaos, growth
inside me too
I yank shoots
walk the grass, killing
tangles grown & weeds
roots so deep in me
on this blasted ground
shoots branch far
as I pull, choking
flowers, snaking the grass
shoots to kill then
stack a pile
vines that crawl
hidden, unchecked
hide from light on this plain
sunny, unforgiving
I look for ends &

pull