periwinkles

it starts growing around midday
when the green tentacles
and sharp leaves
thicken my belly.
later it begins
to stem upwards,
it matures and fills
every artery and
easily
splits it like a pea pod,
spilling the drops of beads.
it entangles the liver, the spleen,
follows my spine,
each vertebrae,
brutal, silent, unseen.
finally, by the evening my eyes twinkle
turning indigo,
the two periwinkles.