Big Blueberries

…coming upon a small meadow unexpectedly

in a moment alpine

there are three struggling

bushes growing   well into the damp

sphagnum

Pahn calls out to Aiks

Of his find—

there is a red twig rose

a cluster of stems only

a handful of leaves

and by it

he sees

                        a smaller

weaker

                                                            wild

blueberry

with large fruits

that look black from a distance

Pahn examines

turning the berries finding

the unripe undersides

     the young blue green

and white   powdery bloom

He searches for uniform

blackness

He finds one round

    firm and fleshy     eats

what isn’t very sweet

but full     and wonders

                        is this a hybrid

                        a fugitive

                                                        from a farm

                                    a variant

                                                                   an undiscovered species?

He walks across the bog

Growing on a rock

is a wild garden of alpines

                        low mats of Androsace

and from a crack     a blueberry

plant     with holly-like leaves

that make him question

                                    if it is what he thought

                      and he may have eaten

                                    what could be poisonous

but in a moment he is

reassured

by the flavor…