NAPOWRIMO #14: NOW YOU'RE TALKING BANANAS

For 2015's National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), Troy's Work Table is writing thirty poems in thirty days.

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NOW YOU'RE TALKING BANANAS

What does one banana
say to another?

We don’t know.
We cannot parse ethylene

although we translate
it into terms

of maturation and mission—
notions we do know.

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The cedars of Lebanon
clap their hands

and we read it
as a hymn of praise

although they may be
waving us away

as we block their view
of the rising sun.

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The whales can hear
the songs of the stars

the flowers listen
to the whispers

of the trees as they
proclaim new life

to one another
while our monkey minds

see naught
     hear nothing
speak into the void.

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