Thursday, May 21, 2009

A Single Poppy

In the whole garden
like screens of green
plane of green
rising into the morning sun
a single poppy
more ornate, fuller, larger
as if a shower puff,
overlapping petals
a singular color, melting
salmon steak and orange sherbet
richer, softer
crepe paper ribbon bloom
drinking in the light
a single red-orange
against a sea of green

May 21, 2009
Broadway Street
Pembroke/Suncook, NH

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