Watercress

Watercress - an art work and poem by T Newfields
Seeds: Ovular pellets
with bifurcated kernels
Roots: Thin, fibrous whiskers
preferring shallow streams;
plentiful, though hardly deep
Stems: Upright green bundles of cellulose
pointing towards the Light
Leaves: Asymmetrical effusions of green
morphing into compound lances;
faintly peppery in taste
Flowers: Tiny snowflakes appearing each spring
heads slightly water
Fruit: Thin cylindrical pods
containing myriads of seeds
resembling string-beans


Andrei: Can I exit from this dialog? Little here is poetic . . .
Elijah: Why can't science can't be poetic?
Ellesha: It is if you look deeply . . .
Philyra: I suppose you would say war is poetic. But that doesn't mean it should exist.
Ellesha: Well, everything is poetric in some way or another.
Philyra: You really don't have a moral spine, do you?
Ellesha: Don't you see? What is music without dissonance? What is light without darkness? All your smug moral certitudes have their counter-weights, which also have validity in some time & place.