In a Landscape

by Robert Sund

In a landscape that desperately needs color

why do the flowers

stay

so close to the ground?

You meet them with surprise

hidden

in the pale grasses.

From A Flutter of Birds Passing Through Heaven: A Tribute to Robert Sund, edited by Allen Frost and Paul Piper, Bellingham, Washington: Good Deed Rain, 2016, page 4; originally from Bunch Grass, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1969.