tunnel

Piers Morgan keeps asking, 

“what’s a proportionate response?”

Tell him, depends. If it’s a home 

of willow and walnut palm, then it’s 

bullet-proof, memory. If it’s a word

it’s an epic verse, and there are no 

words for wounded child no surviving

family- only an acronym, an anomaly

tell him, if it’s a child it should

not haunt his dreams, the child was 

never meant to be born by mother, but

by land. This child is seed, remind him,

seed is underground, a stubborn thing,

more underground than tunnel.