Bonnie Arning is the author of the collection Escape Velocity (University Press of Colorado, 2017), selected for the Mountain West Poetry Series. A native of Albuquerque, she received her MFA in poetry from the University of New Mexico. Arning lives and teaches in Oregon.

Bishop’s Lace Grows Rampant

by Bonnie Arning

on the roadways. It’s true,         our favorite flower
is a weed.       It smells like the sacristy where


as an altar girl
I adorned a white robe and rang the bells


for Hallelujah.       For transformations      pay attention and rejoice.
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