Scott Simpson · Poetry

The Flower in the Field

Use For Kindling · source pages 27

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There were too many

things blooming

in the yard

that summer.

The sunset held them all

in gold,

but I couldn’t see them

until I focused

on one—

a single Black-eyed Susan,

still as a hush,

reminding me:

start small,

and the rest

will come into view.