driving past milkweed
for mk it is during these drives i learn about harvesting saffron, dried threads the color of Buddhist monk robes and prized as spun gold or the resurgence of monarch larvae's sole host: this resilient and deeply-rooted perennial of milky sap and wind-dispersed silk these and other seeds spun and freely proliferated by a wildly astute mind generous as nature herself before the butterflies return ls 6.24.26
