Wednesday, September 8, 2021

september garden

common valerian's

pure white,

as the goat's beard,

now skeletal,

rises

aloft

far from

soft

wild phlox, 

still

sweet.

 

At phlox feet,

creeping bellwort,

returning.

 

Learning that the

New England aster,

purple haloes

bursting through,

mark the

pin cherry's brutal death 

earlier this year.


Clearly, 

hedge bindweed 

has its

heart set on

calico aster.

 

Slowing

bees

lay stunned

under

goldenrod

rigida and canadensis


as an autumnal

spiderwort of

bluest blue

cursively

creeps

into

the cooling night