1
Why inside our eglantine
Were the elephantine
We placed all insubstantial prizes
So diamond so olive
Wild dunning to pock the block
About an honest design for temporary
Wildflowers so breathless
2
Why were we in this inestimable lake
tiny so wild and syllable
not a story about wildflowers
Why were we implacable in the face
Elise so wild to shine
about wildflowers the umbrellas
Why were we bought and sold
so wild to trice
about wildflowers returning home
Why were we laughing in the attic of starbursts
so wild bejesus
about wildflowers godmothering
Why were we finite butterflies
so wild horn of pressure
about wildflowers in the tendon
Why were we in question
so wild our attention
about wildflowers procedures
Why were we implacable in our demand
for time so wild to feed
a song about wildflowers defined
Why were we America’s secret victims
fruit so wild to honor
not about wildflowers nor longitude
Why were we incapable of singing
underwear so wild and plural
adjustments about wildflowers timing
3
Wildflowers rang the original pendant
Wildflowers signed their names in blood on our legs
Wildflowers brought peace to America
Wildflowers sang through the arteries
Wildflowers touched this deep in the sauceboat
Wildflowers masked our difference and—
Wildflowers basted the gates
Wildflowers sang the horseplay
Wildflowers wrapped our onions
Wildflowers branched through our patooties
Wildflowers drank the acids
4
They represented a torch to light
force through purple laskers
Something held the ring in place
(The falls pursuant to their obligations)
The fruition of quiet
The discovery of wrongdoing burned holes
This regimented elevation
Deep in the home of gloom
Time in the hose of bromides
The balm of soup
(Toulouse hemispheres)
The restitution of our homeland
There in the impossible (signpost)
Timely purchases and the ripe toil of elephant rolls
At the bottom (two plastic saints
A ruckus in the upholstery)