RUELLIA NUDIFLORA

  

No matter how showy or how drab a flower may be, the
primary  function of all flowers is sexual reproduction.
---The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening

 
 
 

We awaken in the luminous morning.

There are many of us here.
We have only this one day.

Brilliant  amethyst trumpets
Open &
Flaring open
Yielding, saying:
Enter sun
Enter heat & light of summer

Take you in
Flourish in you
For this my one lavender day
Oh I glow

Yes

***

At day's end
My five petaled flower
Undulates a trembling violet

So (weak) tired

So tired (spent)
 

Let slip my crinkly skirts
Slowly down
The thin, curved length
Of my smoothe, pale pistil

Just a catch at the tip

I'm (un)done
 
 
 

7/14/2001
Ingrid Karklins