Title: in defiance of science and common sense
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Challenge: Flower

Summary: We need to talk about the dandelions.

(Title from Guante's Dragons: In defiance of science and common sense / We don't belong together, I see it / But I ain't gone yet)

We need to talk about the dandelions, she said
And I said yes, let’s. Aren’t they beautiful?
Wide leaves stretched out like a mother’s arms
To shield the tender bare dirt beneath them
Brave roots exploring the clay where the grass
Doesn’t dare to grow. They dig their toes
Into the cracks between the hard places
The dark places where the sun won’t reach
The starveling, dry, unwanted places.
They bloom jauntily. Defiantly.
They are so strong, aren't they? to live like that.

If you want fewer dandelions, I said,
Be kinder to the garden