Callicarpa bodinieri ‘Profusion’ by Jean-Pol Grandmont, via Wikimedia Commons
A beautiful haiku about a beautiful berry . . . called, forgive my repetitiveness (I’m playing with you this fine morning), beauty berry! I couldn’t resist including a photo of the blooms–ah, dreams of spring!
–Sandra Knauf
Haiku
when all has fallen
what is left
beautyberry
‘Happy Meal’ by Bob Peterson, via Wikimedia Commons
Tricia Knoll is a Portland, Oregon poet who has maintained gardens all her life, sowing the seeds of sanity. She grew up admiring her mother’s roses and vegetable garden. She is an Oregon State University Master Gardener and volunteers at Portland’s Washington Park Rose Test Garden. Her chapbook Urban Wild is available from Amazon and focuses on interactions between humans and wildlife in urban habitat.
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