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.