Tendrils from a stump

Veiny bulb and textured

like a turtle shell

but soft and sinewy

Blood-white bone

Hardened vine husk

Sanguine plasma tube between

the knobs of joints

Single-axis shoots

Sickly speckled flesh

Coarse pads and river tendons

and crescent-shaped barbs

Protrusions from the final plane

Obscure soft fuzz mounting

the leather of the artifice

the tool that is a looking glass