Invasive

" Invasive "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

The long, hard slog
across the well-trodden
field of taxonomy
with oddities marred
by up-in-arms
controversies
still unsullied
by the unsung
depictions of
newly-discovered
genuses from
beetle hunting
with unction
and full flourishes
of wildflower study
ultimately succumbing
to noxious nonames
invasively traipsing
across desiccated
binomial remains.