redress ...

a cloud of remnant flames that sway

on slender stalks above a mound

of green entangled frond on frond

whose petals droop and drop away

 

to lie in tatters on the grass ~

while still the heavy-headed blooms

imbue the air with drowsy fumes

that linger long before they pass.

 

the poppies rise, unfurl and swell

and spread their petals to the sun

till every hue is all undone

and every husk a hollow shell.

.... bj omanson

 

pp with les brumes and flypaper textures.

Done