Purple Cone Flowers
I store echinacea
above my small mugs
Greek echinos“hedgehog” herb
boosting immunity
in eight stainless white china pipes
too small for Bengal Spice milk tea
Last summer a hedgehog
greeted us on our dog walks
peeking from a small wood
inching to a stump
looking up toward
a sinking sun
its spiny
cone-shaped
headdress
purpling with the waning light
like cone flowers
growing in poor soil
during that drought when I
even spiked
the trees.
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