SEEDS
Seeds will sprout and grow eternally
through cracks in the concrete
even from under concrete.
Seeds easily grow in rotted logs and planks of wood.
They heave their shoulders and spinal columns upward
Cracking their birthbed of earth,
pointing leaves upward--
Swaying and dancing in spirals--
nodding with
the axis of sun and its earth--
Grass-like leaves
waving in breaths of breeze.
We will always be here--
Sighing and saying--
"we are here, now, and forever,"
Nutational spirals to the blue sky
"We are here eternally"
Our brutal swelling energy
breaks in gentleness
the surface of the earth--upward--
to the cosmic heavens.
Frank La Rosa
February 23, 2026
