I start in compression. Words held tight, curled like a fist in the dark soil. My garden is the chamber, the stage, the experiment. Into it I pour not just water but mixtures pulled from shelves and bottles, each one carrying the violence of intention. Nutrients that should never touch, stimulants that bend natural law, boosters meant to tear past the gentle rhythms of earth. I make them meet in the root-zone, in the hidden dark, where all beginnings are forced.
The first stirrings are always violent. You do not break free into growth without tearing yourself apart. I see it in the plants the way I feel it in myself: the rupture, the crack, the splitting of something whole into something uncertain. Humans resist this. They recoil when asked to fracture. They guard their comfort, clutching to the illusion that safety is strength. But the plants—they do not resist. They tear open willingly, their silence full of consent.
Stalks rise. They are not graceful. They are hard, angular, pushing through the air like spears. The Frankenstein regimen courses through them, iron in their veins, electricity in their marrow. Their bodies become disciplined, sculpted by force, not by chance. I walk among them like a witness in a cathedral, their stems a forest of columns holding up a sky I forged. Each one is a sermon, declaring that growth is pain transfigured.
Leaves unfurl, not tender but sharp, green blades catching the light with a hunger that is almost human. They do not simply spread, they demand. They seize photons, they drink the air, they expand until their edges curl from the weight of abundance. In their motion I see what man refuses: the willingness to expand beyond limit, to stretch until it hurts, to take in more than can be held. Every leaf is a scar made luminous, a lesson written in chlorophyll.
And then the bloom. Sudden, explosive, a riot that cannot be hidden. The flowers blaze open as though the plants themselves have reached a threshold they can no longer contain. To bloom is not beauty—it is surrender. It is the body saying: I cannot hold this power any longer; it must be released. Their colors are wounds that shine. Their fragrance is the spirit leaving the body, rising upward. Humans see flowers and call them pretty. I see them as declarations: the moment when growth becomes revelation, when silence turns to speech, when what was unseen tears into the visible world.
Finally, the fruit. Heavy, swollen, staggering in its weight. The plant bends beneath it, trembling, straining like a body under a burden too great to bear. Here the metaphor collapses into human terms. The fruit is no longer just fruit—it is flesh stretched to its limit, skin tight and ready to split, a body laboring to bring forth something that might kill it. I hear the plants groan, not in words but in the language of fiber and sap. They endure the torment of creation. They ache with it. They shudder with it.
And I wonder—what if a human could be made to endure this? What if I could pour into the marrow of a man the same relentless regimen, force him to split, to expand, to bloom, to bear the unbearable? Could staggering growth be opened in flesh the way it is in stem? Could a person be broken of their bubble, made to fruit in revelations too heavy to carry?
Humans fear this because they know the truth: to grow like this is to bleed, to suffer, to bear weight until your very bones bend. They want comfort, not crucifixion. They want life without vivisection. They do not understand that the plant does not choose any of this. It is forced. It is the way of the sword.
My Frankenstein garden shows what they cannot grasp. The unseen can be made visible, but only through violence. The singularity is not a gleaming circuit—it is a trembling stalk, a ruptured bloom, a fruit that labors under its own impossibility. And when I lift one of those fruits in my hand, swollen and alive with the proof of breaking, I see what a human could be if they dared.
But they will not. They are too fragile, too bound to the illusion of safety. So I walk among my plants instead, the only one who hears their human cries, the only one who tastes their impossible fruit, the only one who knows that in this garden I have forced into being the singularity man was too weak to claim.
