The Authority of Dandelions

You unfold

Rugged in the sun —

You were not pampered,

You are not celebrated,

But your certainty of presence

is felt

in the confident, bitter tang

of your leaves

and the shiny split curve

of your stem,

and all those seeds you have prepared

in tender softness

for their skyward flight.

©Wendy Mulhern

April 29, 2014