On a recent trip to visit family in Michigan,
    my sister and I found this folder of "verses"
written by our father.

This is the first I have transcribed:

Wildflowers

Rainbow colors fragmented
Along dry and dusty roadsides

Amethystine loosestrife
Brown-faced Susans with
            petalled tufts of bright orange
Sweet clover heads nodding to
Chicory rosettes striped in
The distillate of summer skies
And skewered on wiry stems

Pistilled, sepalled, stamened testimonials,
Untended, unheeded, unsavored

Lord, forgive my preoccupation
            in my four-wheel prison

— Peter J. DeVries (Senior)

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