Peanut

and still I maintain

having understood

only

what is meant by heel

underfoot or next to,

and the forgiveness

that entails, the loss, the gain

unburied from our roots

washed, and set to air

in light

as fingers of experience

wrap around

to squeeze

us

our food for the poor

traversing from the Americas

to Europe, Africa and Asia

then pressed upon

the world

and those who've tended our pain

with allergy to compulsion

have said, the botany of us

has a soul

a kin

on opening up