NB Sweethearts an alternative name for Cleavers; Queen Anne's Lace the flower heads of Wild Carrot. <br /> <br />Queen Anne's Lace silhouettes in the hedges <br />hawthorns bound in bindweed ties <br />white moons shining in the noonday, <br />trumpets proclaiming summer's afternoon. <br />Sweethearts cleaving to the branches <br />the gate ajar creaking as I enter <br />with poppy red and campion pink. <br />Mid-summer sun and panting robin <br />sleeping faun and nettles limp <br />no more to sting, fretwork ferns <br />patterns cut, scissors in the night, <br />nightjars guarding with the owl. <br />Bracken in the copse turning gold <br />before the ferns, brambles soon, <br />purple fingers, bleeding hands and pies <br />Foxgloves fading seed pods swelling <br />seedlings for next year around my feet, <br />Fire-weed soon to light the path.<br /><br />John Rickell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/queen-anne-s-lace-2/
