Sand's Pink Carpet

Visiting Crescent Bay today to walk the dog, I noticed the lovely pink carpet of wildflowers spreading in the tan sand. I realized it is a wildflower that also grows in my lawn, pinweed or Stork’s Bill, Erodium cicutarium. It’s a lovely little flower that usually does not grow this large in the lawn, but here it is a lovely carpet. And so, a haiku.

About the plant:

• Forest Service
• Burke Herbarium
• Contour Art based on pigweed
• Two previous poems and identification story

Sand’s Pink Carpet

The beach sandy brown
today carpeted in pink
petals, pinweed blooms.

SHERI EDWARDS
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH
PINWEED, ERODIUM CICUTARIUM
HAIKU
4/29/26

 

Contour Art by Sheri42 on RedBubble: Pinweed

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