EARLY MAY DEATH CAMAS (Zygadenus venenosus) . . .
On the road in the American Northwest. [ click photo for next . . . ]
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM
Along a trail through a high
cottonwood meadow,
Horsemint and Death camas
grow side by side,
the one healing herb,
the other poison root.
Such is the strangeness of the way things are.
Sure sign of “evil” as a dark
force of nature, out
to do us in?
Quite doubtful . . .
More the ever-present possibility,
as we cross paths with the good,
and the bad,
of not knowing the difference
between them.
[ from THE LITTLE CLAVIER ]
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