Pressed Flowers

The flowers we picked last summer
and pressed in your ladies’ magazine
have crumbled to dry blossoms
and feed a winter fire. But they
remind me how you walked in sunlight,
red clovers in your hand, laughing,
while time turned cartwheels and
on a single spike of timothy
two bobolinks fluttered together.

    Original Citation

    Nimrod 16 (Fall-Winter 1971) 13.

    Word Count
    52
    Original Publication
    Date Published
    1971
    Complete Poems
    245
    Theme(s)
    First Line
    The flowers we picked last summer
    Poetic Form
    open
    Twitter Quote
    you walked in sunlight, / red clovers in your hand