Shownotes
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Lot: Vacant, Not
Danielle Eleanor Lavalle
Let me pick you a bouquet,
cracked-asphalt-flowers — who do not know that they are garbage:
Blue violet Chicory, straight, straight, straight,
reaching for a Mediterranean sun that isn’t here
Daisies at last,
in neat clumps — safe from the weedwhacker
Hawkweed splaying wildly — used to being called ‘skinny dandelion’
Mischievous Asters (too early)
awaiting autumn to explode between the fences and towers of Goldenrod
petals like fraying thread:
deep purple,
stained barely pink,
yellow,
white
Wild Bergamot, unexpected,
daring you to call it ‘sparse thistle’,
almost fuchsia frilled tendrils embracing the
bouncing in
and bouncing out
of eager bees
A single raspberry coloured Poppy, that planted itself
on the margins of cement border and sidewalk
No flower
— that grows in a used-up-poisoned-discarded space —
is garbage
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