Urban Physic Garden

very-stars of
the lower lands, we had no
 
seed, no hand; stanzas on the light-box, for what use,
ragamuffin?
 
“I have given or would have
given life to” which thought stops the heart
 
the stripes and pockets of the field
expatiate alone :
 
and the whitest heart prevails
 
 
Edmund Hardy
(From Herbarium, a new poetry anthology. Launch and reading 22 July)