WALK #15

I’m bad at identifying plants. So that purple loveliness is either lavender or Mexican sage. I once used this beauty in an (ugly) anti-Drumpf poem… which is a milder case of a poet’s predilection to consider nothing sacred. Of course, if you delve deeper, you might discover that the poet considers nothing specific to be sacred only because the poet considers everything sacred. 

The Legacy of Bolinus Brandaris *

Blossoms

highlight the

power of snails

whose mucus suffices

for creating

royalty

like the color

purple that

adorned

rulers of Byzantine 

and Roman

empires,

Roman Catholic bishops,

the Japanese

emperor

and his aristocrats,

and my

child

as he graduates

from high

school.