You, Old Man, 
And your black-eyed susans
Of which many
I was one.

A girl was raped in the blackberries 
Out back when I was seven.
I should have known better
Than to grow up so dangerously

What with all this 
Nature everywhere.

-=-

Wilted party balloons
With cacti-looping ribbons
& luminescent china blooms.

-=-

I planted black irises 
In my mothers yard
For all the things that have been done
That we had not wished.

-=-

You know right here in Massachusets
There are these immense green orchids?
As if the darkest corner of Madagascar
Were no diferent than this hairbrush.
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