"Peonies", by Jim Harrison

[med_cat]

Peonies

 

by Jim Harrison
 

The peonies, too heavy with their beauty,

slump to the ground. I had hoped

they would live forever but ever so slowly

day by day they’re becoming the soil of their birth

with a faint tang of deliquescence around them.

Next June they’ll somehow remember to come alive again,

a little trick we have or have not learned.

(via Read a Little Poetry FB page--many thanks!) 

(they also have a website, do take a look: readalittlepoetry.com/)