Take Root

Illini springtime --

summer now, then winter now,

wildflowers in snow

Expensive green lawns

far away; dead grass patches.

Room for wildflowers

Prairie state native;

Every colonized inch green

European grass

White man’s medicine

Golden flowers bite the snow

Dandelion grow

Dandelion blow --

My invasive soul blooms in

cracks where wild things grow

Under springtime snow

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