American beauty

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ~Jean Giraudoux

Self

The bright shining

only reflects back to myself,
my own light blinding me.
I can't see the world and they can't see me.
~Anna Chrisrest, "Orion's Under the Clouds"

“O Tiger-lily”

. . .said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, “I wish you could talk!” “We can talk,” said the Tiger-lily: “when there's anybody worth talking to." - Lewis Carroll - The Garden of Live Flowers

Curiosity

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~Henry Miller

Simple topping

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David Thoreau

Hey, hay

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. ~Violette Leduc

Insects dentino

He wore black denim trousers, and motorcycle boots
a black leather jacket, with an eagle on the back.
He had a hopper-cycle that took off like a gun,
he was the terror of highway 101 - The Cheers 1955