Poems Niederngasse

 
Joseph W. Carcel
Black Locust 
(Love Slave)

The vendor of Black Locust smiles
at those importunate for less than love. For five 
you'll get the seeds to raise your stalk,
to bring you into heaven just like Jack, 
though clouds will just be pillows on blue sheets.
See here's a beauty with the finest teeth:
you'll need no trick to get this one aroused:
Her hearts been scarred to break it's dormancy.

Black locust--Plantae Anthophyta Dicotyledones Leguminosae Robinia pseudoacacia L.  The stigma and style remain on the legume, visible at the tip. Hard seeds found inside, probably needing scarification to break their dormancy.
 

Joseph W. Carcel  Email:  Jebusoc@aol.com
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