New England Diary

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Survival and decoration

"The flowers that thrive on the margins,

by the tracks and roadsides as we pass

on our way somewhere else,

planted by no one and often unnoticed,

their beauty gratuitous, prodigal,

have nothing to do with us,

have nothing to do with decoration

but with survival.''

 

-- From "Arrangement,'' by Massachusetts poet Jeffrey Harrison