myosotis bindweed myosotis,
bindweed viola bind
digitalis, weed
chicory. amaranth
bind bellis perennis bind
weed bellis perennis bellis perennis.

bindweed chicory, weed
amaranth bind chicory. viola
tricolor, collinsia weed
sedum.

wild geranium bind ranunculus, weed
amaranth viola
canina bindweed petasites
weed convulvullus
weed wild carrot weed crocus
versicolor bind
prunus padus,
plains coreopsis bind
viola tricolor.

forget me not in the scorpion grass,
my heart’s ease is dressed
in lady’s glove, fastened
bachelor’s button. the prince
feather wakes the day’s eyes for just
the sight of daisy daisy—

and so, I’m nursing hurtsickle, become your
love-lies-bleeding in a bluebottle. love,
in idleness, my innocence turned
to stonecrop.

a dove’s foot prates the lesser celadine, as you
my velvet heath
dog hung with butterbur,
proffer me the devilgut
in lace, in a cloth
of silver and I
cough up the birdcherry,
a golden tickseed, and watch
my heart              cease.