At first I thought you were a dandelion.
Beautiful petals hide the insidious;
Tufts of your hair floating hither and thither,
seeding the prairie
But then I began to see you as you are,
monstruous dryad, oversexed! Leaves like knives!
anatomy ill-understood, taking root
from bayou to plains
proliferating from coast to wicked coast
It beggars belief what physiology
could allow such a thing to thrive in this place
such a thing as you