Image & Poem by Nicole Rushin

Evolvulus glomeratus 'Blue Daze'

(A low growing tender perennial and a member of the Morning Glory family, also commonly named Hawaiian Blue Eyes. They open in the sunlight and cloudy days don't suit them. We have much in common with the plant world and the sums of nature…)

The delicate self pity of a flower

Refusing to show her face

Soft gray-green fists

Cling to blue sheets

What else can be said

Of the Blue Daze

On a cloudy day?

November drops her leaves

Summer mourns for spring

We ache for the seasons

Ache to say -

What nature has explained

In the delicate self pity of a flower

© Nicole Rushin November/2011

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