MORNING GLORIES

Blue and dark blue
           rose and deepest rose
white and pink they

are everywhere in the diligent
          conrnfield rising and swaying
in their reliable

finery in the little
          fling of their bodies their
gear and tackle

all caught up in the cornstalks.
          The reaper's story is the story
of endless work of

work careful and heavy but the
          reaper cannot
separate them out there they

are in the story of his life
          bright random useless
year after year

taken with the serious tons
          weeds without value humorous
beautiful weeds.