Vine Wood ~ Agnes Lawrence Pelton, 1913
I gather wildflowers
among beasts,
those nameless,
wary watchers
who fear I will
steal spring.
They once
owned Eden,
the prayer path
of migration,
winter before
the melting.
I carry the scent
of humans,
the devastators
who claimed dominion
over all they never owned.
Mother Nature
had warned them
those who speak
with tongues
carried death
on their fingertips.
I’ve only come
to pick wildflowers,
and plant purple hyacinths
as penitence to show my sorrow
humans couldn’t discern
it was they who should
be named beast.
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who claimed dominion
over all they never owned"
This is such an accurate description of us, humans.
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Anna :o]