A very short poem about overcoming adversity.

What motivates you

street weed
in a gravel driveway—

the first of your kind
to rise
amongst the rocks

and plant
the green flag of biology
into pure geology

so that the forest
has a signal flare:

a seed
of stone.

–David O’Boyle writes a tanka of poems. Check em’ out.

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Own Medicine.