Sanguiponic Gardening

after Professor Snyder‘s witnessing

Ukraine lies in state
Leaking amniotic fluid into air

History there incarnates
As a snake a monstrous worm
Whose transparent flesh surrounds
Its surroundings
Subterranean, peristaltic
A severed phallus surfacing
To eat death shit life wriggling
Unknowingly as it devours
As it fertilizes tunneling
Through the real mirage
Of Babi Yar slithering
Between the hard rocks of Bucha
Of blood-wet Mariupol nourished
By so much red
All these fields where no bones
Arise in science-fiction resurrection
But rot in place
Making room for new arrivals
Fresh shipments of human flowers
That bloom in darkness thriving
In this rich black soil compacted
In the manner of Russian dolls
One life inside another inside
Another not mine or yours but

Some distant near relation
Enriching our shared terrarium.