Today's Flowers

FRONTIER TOWN
Stumbling over the ruts left by their wagons

Around Appaloosa hills before sundown

melts into the valleys,

Dust swirls around my sandals

whispering each name.

Traveling without a compass, I think I see

an unhinged cavalry horseshoe

Jutting out from the new earth,

A headstone of blanket flowers rises

Bright colors a mixture of Native blankets and tears.

Scattered stars in a black Dakota sky

remain the silent witnesses.

Today's Flowers, a new meme that is a virtual flower shop, gives me another opportunity to celebrate flowers. Lucky me!

Blanket Flowers are so colorful and fanciful, are hardy native prairie flowers that thrive in the Midwest.