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Melissa Ostrom is the author of The Beloved Wild and other writing

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The Transfigurations Out Back

August 2, 2018 By Melissa Ostrom Leave a Comment


Light splashed this morning
on the shell-pink anemones
swaying on their tall stems;
down blue-spiked veronica
light flowed in rivulets
over the humps of the honeybees;
this morning I saw light kiss
the silk of the roses
in their second flowering,
my late bloomers
flushed with their brandy.
A curious gladness shook me. [Read more…] about The Transfigurations Out Back

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