Category: Unplugged

Fighter

close up photo of the first leaf of a sunflower pushing from the earth, with a shoe print on top of it
My housemate accidentally stepped on a patch we’d sowed sunflowers in, and the next morning, the first leaf had emerged

Smothered underfoot,
weight of the earth over it,
sunflower rises.

Looks

close up photo of the spiky buds and the purple flowers of Stork's-Bills, also known as erodium plants.
Stork’s-Bills, also known as erodium plants

Pointy and scary
buds looking mean, aggressive—
give way to flowers