weathering

widely native, never wilting, weathering well, white avens (Geum canadense)

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once again

spring hopes                         a seedling oak                         before the deer

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milkweed garden — third spring, first blooms

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moment

  mown        a moment        remembering thyme-leaved speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia).

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a brief turn

Cherry Springs State Park, I’m told, is named for groves of black cherry trees–

its evening sky,  the clearest and darkest in Pennsylvania.

These days by Little Crum Creek, hours from the skygazers I’ll one night join,

a single black cherry briefly flowers the white light of our nearest star.

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clarity of our time

Each morning, first thing:  canopy over Little Crum Creek.
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awake–                                felled trees–                          the clarity of our time
….snowfall                           ….spaces that shape
……..traced limbs

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Why plant milkweed?

One

more

monarch

headed

in due time

for

Mexico

 

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