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.