Bio Note: I am a lifelong and long-lived reader and writer of poetry. Not happy unless I have a poem in progress, and another in submission. Enjoying an email acquaintance started when I liked another poet's V-V poem too much not to contact him. Publications: Verse-Virtual, Bramble, Avocet.

Don’t bring me
those long-stemmed roses
cut and dying.
Please me with a wilder walk:
sleek silk tassels
sandy stalks
the fluffy puffs of thistle down
soft and quiet shades of brown
where breezes plant their seeds for free.