is lovely. would that mean

symmetrical? bilingualism is hardly symmetrical           
                      consider this dimerous flower: have – have
and how English sentences bloom. with haves. with gardens. secret

but known to those who know
                                  Danish

                                  or plurilingual gardening
attend to all the floral whorls of have. essential and non-essential.

cut in half its semantic pistil

                                                          how many carpels fused
                       you gather such wordbuds to hold them (in hand), that is,

                                                                                        by definition, have

            now you possess your own handy garden or
predicated not of you the possessor but

of the thing possessed: there is to you a garden
                                  you stand in that dative

                                  sheltered, in the shadow of

                                                        your property pollen-dated

                                                                                            to Old Norse
enclosed in garð-r you hold hafa in your hands

                                             turn it the English way – own

                                             turn it the Danish way – own

                                             but turn it the Danish way again – garden 
                       hardly symmetrical this turn of phrase

                                                                                       of migrant wording
‘The Use of Gardens

seems to have been the most

ancient and

most general of any

                                  sorts of Possession among Mankind’ (OED)
you claim your garth by fingering the earth of your sentences

by planting haves                      and every have unfurls

                                                                                                    to petalled