Purple faces clay
colored hills.
She protects with thistle
thorns.
Machete to soil, she
returns
with a vast undersea tuber
or spread seeds, she scorns.
This cardoon swims on
dust,
as a desert pony trusts
no one eats wild artichokes.
She is
Invasive
pervasive
Poem and image Caroline Gerardo Copyright July 21, 2016
