New Orts #13

April 14 MMXXIV

[ two in a spirit of deliverance/rebirth, meant for Passover/Easter, and a little late ]

        Another Sarah    by Anne Porter (1911-  )
  (for Christopher Smart)

When winter was half over
God sent three angels to the apple-tree
Who said to her
"Be glad, you little rack
Of empty sticks,
Because you have been chosen.
  In May you will become
  A wave of living sweetness
  A nation of white petals
  A dynasty of apples."

 It struck me, pulling up dandelions, how handsome they are, almost like marigolds, and how hard people work to coax along pansies and impatiens and here is a hardy perennial that keeps coming back no matter what. Maybe people have chosen the wrong side, and the tide of history is with the dandelion.
        -- Garrison Keillor, in Wobegon Boy

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