2008-02-25

I love Queen Anne's lace

I didn't take any of these photos. I found them all online... shortly after a friend of mine told me they had never thought much of Queen Anne's lace, and that it had always just seemed "kind of weedy" to them.






















3 comments:

  1. Queen Anne's Lace always reminds me of summer....

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  2. Anonymous2:34 PM

    Have you ever read William Carlos William's? He wrote a lot of poems about queen anne's lace.

    Like this one:

    Queen Anne's Lace

    Her body is not so white as
    anemone petals nor so smooth - nor
    so remote a thing. It is a field
    of the wild carrot taking
    the field by force; the grass
    does not raise above it.
    Here is no question of whiteness,
    white as can be, with a purple mole
    at the center of each flower.
    Each flower is a hand's span
    of her whiteness. Wherever
    his hand has lain there is
    a tiny purple blemish. Each part
    is a blossom under his touch
    to which the fibres of her being
    stem one by one, each to its end,
    until the whole field is a
    white desire, empty, a single stem,
    a cluster, flower by flower,
    a pious wish to whiteness gone over--
    or nothing.

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  3. I remember it having a funny smell. Pretty though. I've never seen it here... but then again, I haven't been in many fields lately.

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