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Thistles
stand as clocks fully struck
in fields of fading flowers—
when the fires of summer come
they will gather up the hours
of rains past, frost endured
and famished stalks in full gale
that begin their telling once
all forms of telling fail
Source: Poetry (July/August 2008).
Biography
Heidy Steidlmayer's poems have appeared in Poetry, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Literary Imagination, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Steidlmayer is the recipient of the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry and a Rona Jaffe Writers' Award. She is the author of a book of poems, Fowling Piece (2012).
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Nature, Trees & Flowers
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
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