May 25, 2021
The Salsify Sonnet
For all its beauty, it is invasive.
Advice says to pull it up from the roots
before it takes over everything,
but then I found at the bottom a note:
The roots can be eaten. This I must try.
They look like the long fingers of a ghoul
at Halloween--gnarly and pugnacious.
I rinsed them to peel them and fry them up.
I want this to serve as notice, my friends,
and not be eager to eradicate
without finding merit in what remains.
Some, I know, have banished me from their lives
because of my errors, lapses, and flaws.
But I have worth in redeeming in my root.