Today is Day 589 of the daily poems, 15 July 2024. On 15 July 1834 the Spanish Inquisition was definitively abolished by Royal Decree. Nobody was expecting that. Let us put aside the excesses of the Inquisition and images of the terrifying auto da fé, and with our poet Colin Hopkirk celebrate the vegetal fireworks of Queen Anne’s Lace down the lane …
Anthriscus sylvestris
In the lane
a thousand fireworks
each cluster
star and
spark
a fusillade of light
Colin Hopkirk