Monday, February 26, 2018

Wildflower (Monday Poem)

by Sarah Grace Tuttle


A dandelion
sinks its taproot
deep into the dirt,
spreads its toothed leaves,
and opens its yellow face
to the sun --
growing up wild
at the base
of a bus-stop bench.


from Hidden City: Poems of Urban Wildlife
2018, Eerdmans

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