Greetings on a Morning Walk  - First Things

Greetings on a Morning Walk  - First Things

Blackberry vines,  you hold this ground in the shade of a willow: all thorns, no fruit. * Pitcher sage, your fuchsia flowers are crusted brown, trading tenderness for seed. * Anna apple, you are barely four feet high, but a pair of spotted globes depend from one small branch—a twig, really. * Thistle down, you are softer than the spines from which you blow, but your sole purpose is to drift and plant more pain. * Green toyon buds, brown at the m…