Slender Stalk

This slender stalk of green amid the profusion of summertime all around on the sand, this slender stalk stands straight with many delicate white petals and yellow at the center, waiting for a bee to come.

Certainly if it stands here long enough during these summer days under these blue skies beneath the beating rays of the sun, certainly if it stands here that long a bee will finally arrive and taste the flower and hang on to those delicate petals of white with yellow at the center.

Certainly such a bee will come and make the slender stalk droop with its weight, which is just what the stalk is waiting for -- which is what the white and yellow are for: so that a seed might be made and another stalk shoot up out of the sand after the winter snows and ice have come and gone and a spring has given way to warmth and blue skies like this, and another summer's sun.

To stand tall and slender and green with a crown of white with yellow at the center, to wait for a bee to come, that is what this stalk wants to do.

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Honeymooning at Emerson Pond, MI
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