This Wild and Anonymous Flower

still figures in the distance

Dahlias After a Morning Rain

This flower, for crying out loud,
does not need a guardian, a map, 
or any particular reason to wave
its colored capes and thrill us all.

Even while bowing to the rain
pelting down (over night, over day)
it still figures in the distance: 
a promise, an entire life's possibility.

This wild and anonymous flower
asks no questions, knowing already
its single and solitary refrain:
because, because, because...

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