June 23, 2023

cup of dainty

What the green–stemmed cup-of-dainty knows
is evanescence. Here tomorrow or
not the same small rule obtains: to grow
unnoticed in the shadows of the more
likely hillsides of the earth, and wait
for heavy humid breezes to bring rain.

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