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From 'the inner world'
Burdock, originally from Eurasia, and an invasive weed in North America.
“In the April sun that doesn’t yet smell, brown and red birds declaring hunger,
I appear from the inner world — a hell of beetles and voles — appointed to multiply.’’
— From “Burdock,’’ by Carol Frost (born 1948), Massachusetts-born American poet.