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

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