beauty will start emerging from the ground. This very healthy stand of Celandine Poppy (Stylophorum Diphyllum) has been enlarging each year. It is native to Missouri and the blooms continue for several months.
The flowers have four yellow petals, many yellow-orange stamens, and a single knobby stigma, seen straight on.
The [Red] Poppy
The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they
govern me. I have a lord in heaven called the sun, and open for him,
showing him the fire of my own heart, fire like his presence. What could
such glory be if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters, were you like me once,
long ago, before you were human? Did you permit yourselves to open once, who
would never open again? Because in truth I am speaking now the way you do.
I speak because I am shattered.
From The Wild Iris, published by The Ecco Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Louise Glück. All Rights reserved.
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