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Pressed Flowers

Text of Poem

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.

First Line
The flowers we picked last summer
Original Pub Location
Original Publication Date
1971
Original Citation
Nimrod 16 (Fall-Winter 1971) 13.
Complete Poems
245
Hearst Collections
Word Count
52
Poetic Form
open
Themes
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you walked in sunlight, / red clovers in your hand