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plants
whose roots grow outwards
seek
beneath the cool hard frost of the garden
plants
of purely interior concern
and inverse roots
their stems sealed up in self-absorption
perhaps out of fear of the cool hard frost
or of otherness
nudge close around them
test the enclosed flesh
at points of thinness
or sensitivity
slowly warm them
to bring an outward growth
a strand of hidden silver
and more
that
once caught, entangled
they might bear a single flower