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This Wild and Anonymous Flower

still figures in the distance

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Angela Cummings
Sep 30, 2023
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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)
this fire still figures in the distance -
the promise of an hour's possibility.

This wild and anonymous flower
asks no q…

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