Wildflowers
Linda Pastan (from her book Carnival Evening)
You gave me dandelions.
They took our lawn
by squatter's rights --
round suns rising
in April, soft moons
blowing away in June.
You gave my lady slippers,
bloodroot, milkweed,
trillium whose secret number
the children you gave me
tell. In the hierarchy
of flowers, the wild
rise on their stems
for naming.
Call them weeds.
I pick them as I
picked you,
for their fierce,
unruly joy.
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