Lupinus sparsiflorus
Coulter's lupine
Rachel Lehrman
Sunwatcher
dark place for the under parts, dark place dry place,
small moist for the drinking little shallow place,
lupinus, blue blue, purple-blue
banner we reach for
we give the blue of the blue that holds your bright bloom in winter
deep lavender says to be with you, speaks
worship to you—
follows you in the
glide across back over big heat
our purple caress
that darkens with age never compares to the blue, would be blue, is sometimes the blue
of your goodbye, before the cool-off shadow time
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Rachel Lehrman is a poet, writer, artist, former academic, and sometimes-teacher living in the idyllic uk village of Chorleywood with her husband and two black cats. Her work has previously appeared in Blue Fifth Review, The Drunken Boat, Fire Magazine and Shearsman Magazine, as well as the anthology Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman Press, 2010). She published her first chapbook, Second Waking, with Oystercatcher Press in 2009.