Love Poem: Fragile Habitats
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Written by: Soulfire

Fragile Habitats

That first picnic atop Mount Wells
with the silver survival 
blanket and flask 
steaming with tea and wild flowers bursting
yellow, cerise and indigo deep 
in sedge grass, you said 
“it takes seven years for Camas to grow 
back if  trampled,” and 
cautiously skirted the ruptures of colour
while I wondered how many
years to recover
if we tread too carelessly

 
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For Carol Brown's 'Picnic Time' contest