A Milkweed

Anonymous as cherubs
Over the crib of God,
White seeds are floating
Out of my burst pod.
What power had I
Before I learned to yield?
Shatter me, great wind:
I shall possess the field.

From “Two Voices in a Meadow,” in Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems, 1957, by Richard Wilbur, photo by Ian Jaffray.

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