Fragments of Poetry 5

 

look
how it
stands straight on its
thin stems

how it

scrubs its white faces

with the

rays of the sun 

how it

makes all the

loveliness

it can. 

excerpt  from: "Passing the Unworked Field"  by Mary Oliver

from collection: Swan   Swan c 2010

 Queen Anne's Lace  (Daucus carota)

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Photo Location:  Tiffany Avenue,  Kent County,  Michigan

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