Sprouting from a Dresser Drawer

Photo by Albert Moreno on Unsplash

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Sown in packaged soil
Roots watered from the tap
   Too small to know it’s boxed
It sprouts, soaking 
   The hum of incandescent light

Growing long and spindly
Stunted, with potential
Purpose
       bends
            it 
Toward the window’s light
—Longing to feel the sun

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