Flora

 

I cannot make anything

more lovely than these names

 

eyebright

also called bird’s eye, rock rue

 

meadow cranesbill

blue buttons, gipsy, grace of God

 

salad burnet

 

travellers’ joy

 

lady’s slipper or Virgin’s shoe

(might there be one left)

 

Venus’s looking glass

 

early purple orchid

known too as Gethsemane

 

pasque flower

 

and the purple rampion,

does it grow still on Silbury Hill

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Published in ‘Chalk’, a pamphlet published by Evergreen Press, 2022 

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