snaked our way through harsh fields of sunflowers petals
landing on us heavy & dirty & we were beginning to lose sense
of direction became distracted by time the oblivious faces of
sunflowers watching themselves shed become bald
we wanted to feast on each other first wanted to put our
own limbs in our bodies bite into our elbows and knees crack
every joint between our teeth we were hinged things teetering
between upright and indirect flight one of us
ran so fast she burst into a wing the others settled into
envy at the flimsy hardness of her we were hungry and had only
our bodies to devour we ran from each other into each other
until our feet gave way until our jaws opened as fire we were
scaly things we were blossoming finally we were final
rolling midair soon we’d learn to open our mouth to what
we could only guess