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Heart Unwrinkled


06.27.17 Posted in today's words by

Patricia Asuncion’s most recent poem to appear here was “Nonnative Species” (April 2017)

Heart Unwrinkled
By Patricia Asuncion

To keep the heart unwrinkled . . . that is to triumph over old age.
—Amos Bronson Alcott

Wind-scattered wildflower
seeds percolate hybrid
blossoms
in unfamiliar fodder,
rain to desert.

Foreign buds find
own fertile ground,
root in lands far
from home, refugees
to safe haven.

Empty-nesters, parent plants
are left to survey
lands in changing weather—
unused plots sold, soil
amenities added,
smaller plots
repurposed.

Old cultivars revitalize,
interests mingled
in community roots,
resourceful as ravens.

Scrappy survivors, heirlooms
recover
from inclement losses.



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