Wild Geranium

Geranium maculatum

Alum Bloom you of the shocking blue pollen Chocolate Flower root once used as a styptic Old Maid’s Nightcap fruit like the head of a bird Cranesbill bursting open expelling the seeds Crowfoot each seed with a tail that curls & straightens Sailor’s Knot pulling itself into a likely crevasse Rockweed what fool invented these names? Shameface a flush beloved of the bees