Gifts of Asclepias Syriaca
- Milkweed the common variety
- pushes through the sod appearing first
- as hands reaching upward in prayer
- Soon they spread welcoming
- Monarch migrants whose larvae
- will munch here then depart
- Pocked leaves to decorate other
- weeds with their jade-like chrysalids
- Remaining blossoms offer nectar to
- butterflies fragrant beauty to me
- S. Oberhauser
May 2007