Tuesday, September 6, 2022

a fourteen-line poem on hollyhock

1. hollyhock is a word I can’t remember

2. also my favorite flower

3. of more than 400,000 species

4. most I’ve never seen

5. wrong names seek approval

6. honeysuckle — no, delphinium — no

7. holocene, hendecagon, hackathon, halogen

8. six weeks of one bloom after another

9. sooner & sooner

10. hollyhock turns up

11. flowers followed by fruit

12. each disc holds 15-20 papery replicants

13. wanting to scatter

14. raceme, bract, schizocarp


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