Advantages of the ear

Lyrically explanatory

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The ear does not listen: the demon brain
puts its ear to the earhole. The earwig drives
ghost trains through the lovers' tunnel.

Pink cauliflowers blossom at the portals. A bee
from a scented labyrinth makes sonic booms
in the windtunnel where potatoes grow.

The long and sensitive corridors echo. A bee
wears a miner's lamp while gathering beeswax
from the niches where we shelter from the trains.

Contrast with this your typical smelly grottoes
that the speleologist finds, prone as they are
to flooding, blockage, closed for the winter. And fickleness.

The earwig has come right through.
Deep down inside is frenzied joy
at the emergence of Bertha Germ.

Dennis List