VACCINIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM

Lowbush law or just light’s kindness, slightly acidic

hills exhale to fruition tiny crowned spheres. Thin red

liquid is clear but wrong. Their berries are alas false

accessory fruit, flesh from the surface of petals.

What’s beneath becomes second nature. Geometry

of rhizomes, dirt, gossip, antioxidants, memory.

Come July, ripe museum hours, the dead-on pigments,

Rayleigh scattering. When every non-fiction begins

to factor in the predictive power of petals.

Pale white lampshades, designed to keep all the good light in.