Only the winds of spring
can open the anemone
wrote Pliny
Wildflower
mayflower
nimbleweed
Anemone quinquefolia
the wind-god's
name in spring
Five white petals
three part leaves-
the ancients picked them
chanting prayers
Help us
to protect these waters
these wild lands you open on
instill in us
the powers
to contain the ooze of mines
the excrement of need
Protect these
aquifers and springs
of highland rock
the breath of winds
we blossom by
Walt Franklin
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