woodbine

gone to seed
a traveler’s joy

pitcher plants

the old logging railroad’s
boggy bed

tropical depression

touch-me-not quivering
in the rain

July’s white heat

blossoming wintergreen

lady slipper

every way a bee
can bumble

Dutchman’s breeches

trembling in the breeze
of passing trucks

all that effort

to pose as a corpse
wake-robins

hepaticas

the mountain’s timeless
spring fashions

what flutters

in the leaf litter
hepaticas

snowpack

the afterlife
of ghost plants

bound tight

by a dead leaf—
cleavers

still nodding

where the fisher broke cover
foamflowers