Poems and Stories Found While Walking in Woods
by Stephen Harrod Buhner


FLOWERS

Semen is Latin 
for a dormant, fertilized, 
plant ovum -
a seed.
Men's ejaculate 
is chemically more akin
to plant pollen.
See,
it is really 
more accurate to call it
mammal pollen.

To call it
semen
is to thrust an insanity
deep inside our culture:
that men plow women
and plant their seed
when, in fact,
what they are doing
is pollinating
flowers.

Now.
Doesn't that change everything
between us?

Copyright (c) 2003 Stephen Harrod Buhner, All rights Reserved

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