Green Skin

Reworked the previous into a sonnet. All my friends swear I'm a reptile.

Photosynthesis can make you drunk
in summer heat and sunlight, just as if
you were saguaro, tall and leafless trunk
all tilting-tipsy on aperitifs
of carbohydrate. Sugar-high: the curse
of C4 metabolic pathways, sweet
intoxication. Fire in reverse,
producing fuel and absorbing heat!

The mercury has overflowed the glass
like syrup-sap that drips from cactus limbs
while bees are humming nectar-loving hymns.
O scorching summer, all too soon to pass
but bless me as you bless the cactus skin,
free energy for all we lizard kin.

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