Flowers of summer: poems

begonias and moss rose
alongside blooming grasses
in the roadside bed
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eve of summer~~
I plant marigolds
where the pansies died
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bereavement lily~
its orange fallout
blessing me
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daytime: inside
an Easter lily's throat
a firefly
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a yellow tulip
the fallout of its soot
already sprinkled
     ~~from Saul Bellow
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kitten
pawing at the bumblebee
on the abelia
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while honeysuckle
blooms, you won't see
hummingbirds: my son
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among
sawmill machinery
blackeyed Susans
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