Storm Troopers

Crimson poppies get
blown apart by gales of wind—
crepe parachutes drop.

skat@2017

Poppy Storm

papaver petals
detached to drift in the wind—
paratroopers, red

floated, hap-hazard
above earth; touching down, they
bled into landscape

Kat Mortensen©2015

Groundskeeping

  

Poppy-eater sees
No need to be cropping–the
Garden of Weedin’.

skat@2015