Gladioli

certainly highly emblematic of creation,

remote from frills of working blossom with hope of fruit:

slow, durable, placid,

generous, sure of kingly dreams.

All else is natural world and intellect!

Over there the mutton herds:

strenuous ends of clover and daggy sheep—

here friendly talents,

pushing Anna to the center of attention,

explaining her, finding a solution!

The glads offer no solution:

being—falling—

you mustn’t count the days—

fulfillment

livid, tattered, or beautiful.