Blood in the vineyard pools at the root seeping into dry desert dirt

Hairs underground drink the vermillion red rich with iron and wine

Veins ferry the deathsweet sap to leaf buds and meristems waiting for juice from below

They push out the sky in ripening time before rising into a cascade of orbs

Green becomes purple swollen and ripe enticing fearful armed men

To seize body and limbs Crush out the life forgetting that they too are blood on the vine