Daisy + 

The dayseye hugging the earth + 

in August, ha! Spring is + 

gone down in purple, + 

weeds stand high in the corn, + 

the rainbeaten furrow + 

is clotted with sorrel + 

and crabgrass, the + 

branch is black under + 

the heavy mass of the leaves⁠— + 

The sun is upon a + 

slender green stem + 

ribbed lengthwise. + 

He lies on his back⁠— + 

it is a woman also⁠— + 

he regards his former + 

majesty and + 

round the yellow center, + 

split and creviced and done into + 

minute flowerheads, he sends out + 

his twenty rays⁠—a little + 

and the wind is among them + 

to grow cool there! + 

One turns the thing over + 

in his hand and looks + 

at it from the rear: brownedged, + 

green and pointed scales + 

armor his yellow. + 

But turn and turn, + 

the crisp petals remain + 

brief, translucent, greenfastened, + 

barely touching at the edges: + 

blades of limpid seashell. + 