in the green secret

  
in the green secret of the

maple tree                   in the

palms of the thousand leaf hands

is the earnest thread-making

divined through cellulose spools

of the capillary loom

sap and fiber spun

and wrapped around seed

pairs

            and from each seed arches out

an eyebrow spine from which hangs

the papery filigree

of the dragonfly’s wings.