For copyright reasons, this poem  has only been excerpted; please read the poem  in its entirety at the Library of Congress’s  Poetry 180 site.

Dandelion

Julie Lechevsky

My science teacher said
there are no monographs
on the dandelion.

Unlike the Venus fly-trap
or Calopogon pulchellus,
it is not a plant worthy of scrutiny.

It goes on television
between the poison squirt bottles,
during commercial breakaways from Ricki Lake.

But that’s how life
parachutes
to my home.

. . .

Excerpt from “Dandelion” by Julie Lechevsky from Poems & Plays, Number 8, Spring/Summer 2001 Middle Tennessee State University

For copyright reasons, this poem  has only been excerpted; please read the poem  in its entirety at the Library of Congress’s  Poetry 180 site.