
dans le jardin botanique
parmi toutes les plantes du monde,
je me suis retrouvé
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doubtless Dubliners
take in stride their standing stones,
but not I
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July is midway,
roses climb, lilies dance, but
summer is half gone
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Elder weed sends up
starry-white flowers,
mini-Queen Anne’s lace.
Its rhizome roots
crowd out hapless
coral bells and astilbe
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June’s mid-day glow
turned my daughter’s pale cheeks
rosy as flowers
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a still moment,
after the frenzied four winds
blew the dust away
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petalled, leafed and bare,
together through the long years
branches twined
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trembling magnolias
feeling the cold wind’s touch
each petal shivers
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orchestra of color
before the first flower blooms —
a rainbow of chairs
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after snowmelt,
the first flowers have
a special magic
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blue berries round
piny and pungent
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Be you a young Russian soldier
doing as you’re told or
a young Ukrainian,
castaway
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