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"Asparagus."
"Pushing up hard and fibrous from the ground,
it is the spear of Dionysus said to be grown for the mouth,
steamed till supple, so the stem is firm,
but with a slight give to gravity.
Each listening wand has spurs that swell embedded layers
to the dark tip, slumped and implicate, tied set,
and overlapping around the bud, in a slather and slide, butter
floods at the bulb head."