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Blue chicory and Queen Anne's lace now fringe each ditch and interlacedaylilies and sumac, July and fall. Pastel as Delft, weeds stretch and sprawlcool against August's blazing face.
Nobody breeds them. Who'd deface their garden with goldenrod? The one placeAnne thrives is in this roadside scrawl with blue chicory.
When late hay falls to the embrace of sickle-bar, and balers racethe rain, they rise, a fragile wall between asphalt and stubble, alllovely, tough, peripheral as blue chicory. [End Page 57]
Among other places, SUSAN BLACKWELL RAMSEY's work appears in the Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, New Ohio Review, and The Best American Poetry; her book, A Mind Like This, won the Prairie Schooner Poetry Book Prize.*
