Within this shell, A woods waits patient architecture oak and possibility The squirrel misses where she put you underground, her memory loss evolving The forest of tomorrow.
Harsh surface soft promise within, You serve nature's vault. time's miniature capsule.
We open you crackedly. on Christmas tables, your shells dispersion similar broken armor.
They claim you're crazy. meaning unhinged, though possibly insanity is just shielded possibility.
The almond is a seed. A leguminous peanut Outside, the cashew is growing the odd geometry of nature.
Still, we believe you all nuts. this family of husks futures, oils, containing Small forests.
From trees you fall. with rising hopes, gently settling on earth Where amnesia parks you.
Within your toughness Life is a softer thing: the milk, the meat becoming the mar row.
Walnuts appear like brains. perhaps they remember what we have forgotten: That little objects contain immense worlds.
Oak carries acorn, The coconut drifts oceans. the chestnut roasts sluggishly every one of them a sealed promise.