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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 4434 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Hibiscus Blooms Drop to the Floor Gary Blankenship Hibiscus shows one blossom at a time; the Easter cactus sheds in late July. A visora grows lengthy double spines from drops of sap that weep as weak buds die. My wife’s to raise, a casual grower’s try— exotics far from where they first succeed. I consider them pleasing to my eye, but I admire the ordinary weed: A golden poppy, thistle gone to seed, a foxglove’s trumpet, winter dandelion, buttercup’s yellow, honeyed fireweed, and many more made plain by God’s design. As rose and yarrow brown in autumn rain, The year departs. And did we lose or gain? |
