Grevillea

close up photo of a couple of grevillea (spider flower) on the plant
Grevillea, also known as the spider flower

Warm spring afternoon
a rainbow in my backyard:
the spider flower.

Closed loop

photo of a bottlebrush flower with the sunlight streaming through in the top right corner of the photo
Callistemon (commonly known as bottlebrushes), a genus of shrubs in the Myrtaceae family, endemic to Australia

Fed by sun and rain—
feeding gold honeyeaters—
bright bottlebrushes.