redwood

You wouldn't think

that ancestors were reduced 
to … 

DUST
   (lately alive

elders,

asthma,

the crocodile skin..

• cream won’t cover it,

even with the lovely Bulgarian

rose

redwood = asthma =

thinkable/un -
imaginable
 

it’s justnot

        right:

and   
you know this,  little Mary 
with the halo