Flower for the Day Late Allium 6-23-26

> > This late allium (Allium schoenoprassum) just bloomed. It is also known as wild chives, Rush leek, Onion grass and Schnittlaugh. Chives are a perennial herb in the onion family which form clumps of hollow tubular leaves and edible globe-shaped flowers >  > > Chives > > You chop an onion, bone a breast, cradle > an artichoke's dense, thorny crown, you pluck > a chicken, a leaf, an eyebrow peddling luck > with love, you set a table, you seat, you ladle > your soup, you chomp an apple, you agitate > the linens. You agitate for justice. You piece > on chocolate, awaiting calls. You grease > your skids. You rot. You rule. You fail. You rate. > A verb intransitive is a claptrap thing. > Dredge it in flour, you might as well. Let tense > run riot. You pinch spent bloom, craving bitters > and Pimm's when you could go a-rummaging > through chives—those volunteers who in their dense > tufts at least know how to get together. > > Julie Sheehan >