Cauliflower

 

Swelling cloud of snow and steam;

Limp mace by my roll;

Wrinkled, crumpled paper ball;

Stemmed brain in my bowl.

 

Lumpy, swollen whitened flesh;

Pale plant of the moon;

Morbid, grasping hand of death;

Bleached bone on my spoon.

 

Wormy, severed white cat’s paw;

Or Maine, or a tree;

Arched Albino Elephant;

White mushroom in me.

 

-J.R. Willett