how to admire wildflowers

rub your eyes

& see nothin’

more than the flicker of candle flames

burnin’ dry grass still thirsty after april rains

hear as each tells the same story

differently ‘round the family dinner table

think ‘bout colors how 

their brush hairs thick with paint gloss one over the other

‘til the picture dithers

& you no longer see what is

& you no longer are

what you are

& all are just wavin’ 

their wild hands


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