A Common Prayer

What if I told you you can know me best if 

you take time for bindweed chicory flowers 

primrose common ragwort daisy weeds oh yes 

and prolific dandelions? What if I told you 

my nature perspires what it might otherwise bleed 

the sounds of flowers left alone out where 

we walk so often near roadrunners small medium large 

plus henbit not your average nettle oxalis 

all these particulars in a list of the mind and what it means 

to pronounce them like a common prayer I like saying 

pokeweed knowing pokeweed seems not to notice me 

also imperfect and here wild violets I love them 

more than I love the pristine and delicate blooms

that like me barely fit their surroundings.