Nevertheless
you've seen a strawberrythat's had a struggle; yetwas, where the fragments met,a hedgehog or a star-fish for the multitudeof seeds.
What better foodthan apple seeds - the fruitwithin the fruit - locked inlike counter-curved twinhazelnuts?
Frost that killsthe little rubber-plant -leaves of kok-sagyyz-stalks, can'tharm the roots; they still grow in frozen ground.
Once wherethere was a prickley-pear - leaf clinging to a barbed wire,a root shot down to growin earth two feet below;as carrots from mandrakesor a ram's-horn root some-times.
Victory won't cometo me unless I goto it; a grape tendrilties a knot in knots tillknotted thirty times - sothe bound twig that's under-gone and over-gone, can't stir.
The weak overcomes itsmenace, the strong over-comes itself.
What is therelike fortitude!
What sapwent through that little threadto make the cherry red!
Marianne Moore
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