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Today there is new crocus white
and yellow yellow
aconite and a strange small
saffron flower held
back by ragged
flags of weed
the weed a carryover a dream
of August
all soft stooping
to the rain saturated
and yellow yellow
aconite and a strange small
saffron flower held
back by ragged
flags of weed
the weed a carryover a dream
of August
all soft stooping
to the rain saturated
Crocus cartwrightianus 'Albus': photo by Meneerke bloem, 2008
Winter aconite (Eranthus hyernalis): photo by 3268zauber, 2009
Tom,
ReplyDeleteYou've made yourself flower here!
And if I may say so, there is enough left over to flower me.
And I bet another.
Thank you Bob. With you in mind, here is another in the same vein.
ReplyDeleteso healing... like their homeopathic usages...
ReplyDeleteI love how this reads out loud - like a statement of memory.
ReplyDeleteHb,
ReplyDeleteYes, I would certainly agree.
Flowers and poems, I think, have healing uses for the spirit.
Leigh,
There is indeed memory here, in the private sense of my remembering back to writing the poem, on a specific chilly early spring day in 1964, while walking in the gardens of St. John's College, Cambridge.