Grassflower (September)

When, the, grass, seeds, their, flowers, let, go. Their, flowers, are, invisible, to, the, eye, most, times, or, else, make, small, grassflowers. The, names, of, these, grass, flowers, or, grassflowers, are, numberless. They, have, hooked, into, the, soil, and, seeded, and, shot, forth, like, commas, in, a, poem, by, Villa. Because, grasslands, alone, cover, twenty, percent, of, the, earth’s, land, surface. In, our, garden, we, call, them, daisies, interchangeably, for, the, white, buttons, tiny, blue, stars, pink, dots, and, other, miniscule, grassflowers, that, have, reached, that, stage, without, being, mown, down, on, Saturday, morning. They, make, the, beautiful, cloth, patterns, beloved, of, Elizabethan, poets, those, ones, who, dispensed, with, punctuation, marks, like, commas, even, when, they, were, required. They, called, them, jots, and, tittles. Let, someone, else, figure, out, where, the, commas, go. Jose, Garcia, Villa, was, a, fearless, poetic, experimenter. He, invented, the, reversed, consonance, rime, scheme, but, is, best, known, for, good, or, no, as, someone, who, wrote, poems, with, a, comma, between, each, word. Opinion, will, always, be, divided, about, the, virtues, of, this, device, whether, it, is, a, gimmick, or, a, godsend, whether, his, commas, serve, as, medieval, pilcrows, or, postmodern, solvents. Villa, himself, thought, his, commas, were, pointillist, “where, the, points, of, colour, are, themselves, the, medium, as, well, as, the, technique, of, statement". Which, is, why, when, I, look, at, this, page, I, see, the, uncut, ‘carpet’, of, springtime, grassflowers, in, my, back, garden. But, there, is, the, readerly, as, well, as, the, visual, component. We, have, to, concentrate, hard, just, to, understand, each, sentence. Commas, slow, everything, down, into, what, Villa, himself, called, "a, lineal, pace, of, dignity, and, movement". Sometimes, it’s, like, watching, grass, grow, which, may, be, a, benefit, sometimes, who, can, tell. When, a, figure, becomes, the,  common, feature, in, our, sight, it, takes, on, uniformity. We, accept, its, universality. Grass, spreads, in, every, direction, as, rain, and, sun, and, wind, assist, its, tenacious, hold, on, earth. Their, flowers, visible, and, invisible, send, seed, profusely, wherever, it, will, land, and, hook, into, the, soil. No, one, calls, it, eccentric, or, contentious. No, one, wishes, it, otherwise. No, one, says, it, is, taking, hold, of, us, messing, with, our, minds, or, making, things, difficult, to, understand. Grassflowers, with, names, for, all, I, know, like, jot, tittle, pilcrow, spread, in, profusion, thanks, to, an, anonymous, comma, poet.