Baby Plants

poke
        through the dirt
BURST!!

taste air
        feel the power
see light

reach for it
        fragile stem topped with
those same leaves

drinking…drinking
        feeding…feeding, always
stretch leaves out wide

POP, go the true leaves!
        Follow apollo’s path all day
till, POP, go more leaves

no more an alien
        a miniature likeness be
till seasons change again