by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán
Crammed with seeds
tough as a tree might be
replete with delicate leaflets
grass and flowers beneath
transplanted from nursery to street
belying menaces to species
growing from twigs
already filigreed leaves
light-yellowish green
cultivated thornless varieties
shaking off heat
tolerating salt spray
tall flat plates
curling away
contrasting heavy shade
pulsating cicadas
reddish veins
on wings and eyes
eggs laid in twigs
brown stout-bodied nymphs
crawling up trunks
molting into adults
greenish markings
arboreal majorities
life-cycling buzz
northern plus southern
differing species
overlapping broods
loud pronouncements
herringbone patterns
long-tailed salamanders
side bands stream sides
tree lined black stripes
bellies dull white
in search of tiny
invertebrates at night
keeping silent...
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