on the redcurrant
The Redcurrant
is
its stems,
green and hooked.
They smile upwards.
The redcurrant
whose glassy rounds
are
- beside the point.
How they pull from the stem
though. (!)
a silent tearing,
Leaving skin-
on stems:
many-handled umbrellas.
…
I rub a slug-holed leaf between the heels of my palms.
Perpendicular, they apply friction.
I am checking if the plant is not in fact a blackcurrant.
On this one the leaves don’t smell distinctly of anything other than cut green.
so: No.
A redcurrant.
a friday, the seventeenth of july, 2020