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Apache Plum
Mexican Blazing Star
Blue Agave
Cherokee Sedge
Mexican devil-weed
Mexican elderberry
Esperanza
Fall Obedient Plant
Mexican feathergrass
Gaura
Mexican hat
Indian blanket
Jimsonweed
Mexican juniper
Kingcup Cactus
Lluvia de Oro
Mexican Marigold
Mexican Navelwort
Oreja de Raton
Mexican panicgrass
Queendevil
Red-spike Mexican hat
Mexican silktassel
Mexican thistle
Una de Gato
Velas de Coyote
Mexican weeping juniper
Xcanchac-che
Mexican yellowshow
Yerba del Cancer
Zitherwood

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Sunday

So this is Sunday evening
under the live oak behind the kitchen
where the Rose of Sharon
spills purple tea onto the grass,
the yellow bells sound yellow alarms
from tall stalks, and the sunflowers peep
over the fence into the street
where car tires lap at the pavement

Cecily Parks

2022

Harvest

The grackles plummet down to pierce the lawn

For seeds and fat brown live oak acorns and

Ignore the orange plastic watering cans

My daughters drop in the cold grass, my daughters

Saying, Goodnight grass, as if the blades they’d watered

By hand were their daughters, as if the grass

Were a feeling they’d been feeling, greenly

Reckoning the evening, the ball moss falling from the trees,

The sun circling the crouched shade of the weeping

Persimmon tree as mildly as the knife rounds

The persimmon I bring inside so I can say

Cecily Parks

2018

Morning Instructions for the Doctor's Wife

Accept the window
that gives you glass, the dawn
that gives you the maple branch
with a single bud, meadowlarks
singing where you can’t see them.
Keep your black nightgown on,
more night than gown.
Wolves in the wallpaper.
Read an article about a man
who coughed blood. If you don’t learn
who lives next door to you, you
can leave the curtains open
all the time. Only at certain times
can a body be sexual. The doe
that meets your gaze in the meadow
isn’t sexual. When surgeons split

Cecily Parks

2018

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Harvest

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