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Linda Pastan, The Months

Linda Pastan, The Months


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Wildflowers

by Linda Pastan

You gave me dandelions. They took our lawn by squatters’ rights — round suns rising in April, soft moons blowing away in June. You gave me lady slippers, bloodroot, milkweed, trillium whose secret number the children you gave me tell. In the hierarchy of flowers, the wild rise on their stems for naming. Call them weeds. I pick them as I picked you, for their fierce, unruly joy.


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