Hard Rise and Fall: Vanilla Bean

prostitute hand-pollinating
madam's melipona bee buzzing
vanilla orchid high on Bourbon-Madagascar

sapphic cultivators
thriving pods split open
the prostitute separates the membrane from the C-note

working her way under the flap lifted high
by a grass stem releasing the distinctive smell
giving madam's bean a diamond-dusted appearance (hoarfrost)

cash crop between the sheets
silky bible scripture felt up theology
deep at the roots a harlot confides what a madam knows

what came before
her red light phase where the priest came
implemented under greenhouse cultivation

laundering the cartel controls
kilo vanilla prices and distribution
trafficking disbanded in a biblical cyclone

gardner's dictionary or bible
the pod must be split open
to expose the seeds hard rise and fall

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist