Spleen (Hollyhock)

Unblacken the holy mallow,

the incorrupt, the foregut

inconclusion. St. Cuthbert’s cole,

a stalky stand-up, the deadpan

peevish. Splenetic, the marooned

fascicles, the testy watchman-

hockleaf-clock. Ad hoc the anti-

antibodies, the ripped-open

open-pollinating poultice,

the self-sowing aggrievement.