Lot: Vacant, Not by Danielle Eleanor Lavalle | One Poem Only
One Poem Only is a daily poetry podcast offering a quiet moment with a single poem—read aloud, without analysis or noise.Lot: Vacant, NotDanielle Eleanor LavalleLet 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 hereDaisies at last,in neat clumps — safe from the weedwhackerHawkweed splaying wildly — used to being called ‘skinny dandelion’Mischievous Asters (too early)awaiting autumn to explode between the fences and towers of Goldenrodpetals like fraying…
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