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AT THE GENTLE MERCY OF PLANTS -- ESSAYS AND POEMS

by Hildegarde Flanner
© 1986 by Hildegarde Flanner

"I was born in 1899 and I'm still living. I enjoy a rural life and live in the country. I'm devoted to plants and have given a great deal of my life to them but I'm not a botanist. I am at the mercy of plants."
-- H.F., A Vanishing Land
 

Mojave Spring

Over the flower-striped desert
Walk when it is spring,
See the mountains great with snow,
Hear the round lark sing.

Go lightly in a million flowers,
Pollen will reveal
Every greedy runner
By his golden heel.

These are enchanted acres, go
Lightly. You have found
A place where rainbows fall to earth
And grow more vivid on the ground.

-- At the Gentle Mercy of Plants, Essays and Poems by Hildegarde Flanner

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