Invasive
BY Mark Danowsky
Remove the crown
or the vine will climb
back from its earthen grave
Time heals
all surface wounds
as skinks regrow a lost tail
What comes from ground
returns to ground
unless we have our say
We salt the earth
as salt only can
panic a world of snails
Mark Danowsky’s poetry has appeared in Burningword, Cordite, Grey
Sparrow, The Lake, Mobius, Shot Glass Journal, Third Wednesday and elsewhere. Mark is originally from the Philadelphia area, but currently resides
in North-Central West Virginia. He works for a private detective agency and
is Managing Editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal.