Best Sundews Poems

Not like a figwort but not an aster, either. Could he be a buttercup
with sepals, no petals, but sepals like petals? Alan is a bluebeech,
an ash if his books sell. Quick shake hands. Zach's bald ok, a
magnolia, cone-like fruits a bridge to his Neanderthal father.
When...

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But lo! What creature to my clutches wings
Attracted by fallacious promises
And curious to taste my sweet delights?
My scarlet beauty fashioned to bewilder
Shall tantalize this unsuspecting prey
And cause the wretch to plunge into my depths.
I’ll  suck him to a vortex of despair
And suffocate by my...

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The sundews appear first
Marching over the horizon with confidence
Sage insects scatter, attempting to hide.
Pitcher plants show up in the next formation.
Announcing the imminent arrival of the Venus Fly Traps.
There is a frenzy now.
The insects are buzzing in terror.
They fly toward the eating army.
Anticipating their death.
Wanting...

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