ETOMATOS (Puzzle Poetry)

If the root of a tomato extends to eight directions
…with 7th acting 1st
…6th acting 3rd
…2nd acting 7th
…4th acting 5th
…5th acting 6th
…1st acting 2nd
…8th acting 8th
…and 3rd acting 4th
And holds the keys to the life of the plant
Use this key to unpuzzle this puzzle
…knowing the words are beads
…in a continuous count
…unbroken and unshaken by lines and stanzas
…in an 8 to 1 to 8 circle

I
Seeds You of
thing Hosting continent red
With taste high the only
…seen at walls of Knowing a
…smash
…teeth or a knife
an with end do your seeds
…and gathers them example as the wishes
Are you it of human the this we see in
…viciousness existence?

II
clothes You’re skin are
tasty Your juices good high until the rot
touches Why a walls feel within
and I touch you you? your my
cold for like your bite More refrigerating see
you I see you and I a your
whole in why host differences So own a
belly? see your
…fall I At tear
Rot When rot will affect your
left which a will not your whole and a part
within So division host this unwanted why you

III
Please If asking blame me for
you don’t
reason Help the ask God for me
…you think are you you
are If what me God
…mad ask
don’t Help me please why ends you which such a
…fuss host as the naught By
…fecalities and
rots but way
…plant I your the smell of dislike
But stew I my your taste in love
I your so fear your
…taste and hate seeds
two But into representations when cut your in
…questions your more position
Leaves me sitting than you answers
what who know not Those host while within
harmonious think you a Might But
To you’re together to many just
speak chaoses to walking many Who are dubious in
…blessing our only sad world
Your sad is your in of juices and taste
…your cooking
Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © November 10, 2020