wildflower – leaf and twig

Ruffles

edged in pink
a little frill
on leaves

color
and form
undomesticated

sturdy, cheerful, simplicity
such grows in wild abandon
self-seeding beauty

like watercolors
prairie fire bleeds color
across the landscape

paintbrush
of wildflowers
depicts summer bloom

unassuming bloom
calling
monarchs home

amidst the world’s
noise and confusion
aster blooms in profusion

embraced by your single leaf
opening by day, closing at night
wild early powerful medicinal
bloodroot

A spray of goldenrod
bows to autumn’s arrival.

All the mysteries of the universe
are contained
in a wild flower.

Like a receding tide
the ocean of wildflower color
begins its subtle retreat in August.