Posts tagged wildflower
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An eastern bumblebee feeds on panicled asters in early October.

Intent bumblebee —
unaware of his soft stripes,
impossible wings.

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A milkweed husk broken open to show seeds against a dark field in early October.

In the darkened field,
the milkweed husk breaks open,
all the souls intact.

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A dry thistle flower head in September.

Along the deer path,
next to the pond full of fish,
stars fall to the ground.

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A clouded sulphur butterfly perched on a tall sow thistle turning to seed on a sunny day in September.

Thistle goes to seed,
her pale green wings like two sails,
she and I are small.

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A Cabbage White butterfly feeds on a wildflower in July in Michigan.

Off of the main road,
down the slope, along the path,
the Cabbage White feeds.

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A closeup of a red poppy bloom in springtime in Parma Italy.

The poppy calls for
pointing for someone to see
spring fields lit with red.

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A clump of hepatica blooms opening through dead leaves on the forest floor in springtime.

Oh you wistful girl,
hepatica up through dead leaves,
alive underground.

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A purple thistle stem with a spent bloom and a new bloom.

I’ve documented
the endless wonders we’ve seen,
and what have we learned?

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A beach morning glory growing out of a dark thicket with a bloom resting on the curb.

Beach morning glory,
growing in the dark thicket,
blooming at the curb.

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A Wild Carrot photgraphed from below looking towards blue skyn and bright sun.

Fields and fields of them,
the ferocious Wild Carrot,
thin neck, adorned head.

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A Red Admiral butterfly with lightly torn wings feeding on a purple coneflower in the sun.

Wings torn like paper,
the temporary wonders
of flight and being.

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A wild teasel with purple blooms emerging in early summer with a bee feeding on it.

Purple blooms sprouting,
the wild teasel and the bee
meet each other here.

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A garland made of dandelions found in the forest in spring.

A garland left here,
made of bright dandelions
in the May forest.

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Creeping buttercup against a rock in spring.

Creeping buttercup
up and out of the cold earth,
rests on a sunned rock.

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The pollen starts it,
bloodroot, trout lily, toothwort,
feeding the forest.

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The perfect bloodroot—
pulled up through the caved-in tree
by the April sun.

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Cutleaf toothwort bloom
drawn out in lean cold April,
the month of poems.

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First hepatica
in the woods I’ve walked for years,
each time with new hopes.

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Spear thistle wakes up
at the base of a tree stump
as birds sing to sun.

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