Somewhere between a bud and a bloom

When a peanut grows
It sends out leaves
in groups of four
The leaves growout at an angle.

When I saw its white tap root
stick into the ground
preventing me from just
snapping it from
the pot of earth

I knew that it wasnt any peanut
that could have gone
into cooked rice flakes
and ended up nowhere.

It belonged to the earth
like a magnet.

Undiscouraged, the imp in me
split the seed in half
with skin still hanging to each half

kidneys connected to the system.
only the water goes in
to these kidneys.
and they grow by splitting.
An unlike fusion.