Bud
a flood
Hard
core
Charged
force
Drowsy
salt-lick
Your swelling
a sprouting
Thick
splendor
Shoot
take root
Silk-black
bloosoms
Cluster
& swarm
Fever
heat
Soon
springs
I
wait you
Bursting
springing
You, sprout
sprung
Vicuña, Cecilia. “Bud.” Unravelling Words & the Weaving of Water. Ed. Eliot Weinberger. Trans. Eliot Weinberger and Suzanne Jill Levine. Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 1992. pp. 133-35.