Lot: Vacant, Not by Danielle Eleanor Lavalle | One Poem Only
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Lot: Vacant, Not
Danielle Eleanor Lavalle
Let me pick you a bouquet,
cracked-asphalt-flowers — who do not know that they are garbage:
Blue violet Chicory, straight, straight, straight,
reaching for a Mediterranean sun that isn’t here
Daisies at last,
in neat clumps — safe from the weedwhacker
Hawkweed splaying wildly — used to being called ‘skinny dandelion’
Mischievous Asters (too early)
awaiting autumn to explode between the fences and towers of Goldenrod
petals like…
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