June
Paula is digging and shaping the loam of a salvia, Scarlet Chinese talker of summer. Two petals of crabapple blossom blow fallen in Paula's hair, And fluff of white from a cottonwood.
Carl Sandburg
Paula is digging and shaping the loam of a salvia, Scarlet Chinese talker of summer. Two petals of crabapple blossom blow fallen in Paula's hair, And fluff of white from a cottonwood.
Paula is outside, hands in the dirt, tending a salvia plant—a red-flowered perennial that seems to chatter with summer color. As she works, two pale petals from a crabapple tree drift down and catch in her hair, and cottonwood fluff floats through the air around her.
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