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Why poetry?
ing about Lincoln’s death, remarkable to him perhaps because he was looking at and smelling a lilac when he heard of the assassination. Forever after, lilacs in bloom will suggest to us his grief at learning the news.
Or consider W. H. Auden’s beginning of his sonnet “Macao” (the Portuguese colony near Hong Kong).
“A weed from Catholic Europe, it took root Between the yellow mountains and the sea, And bore these gay stone houses like a fruit, And grew on China imperceptibly. .
I am immediately reminded of a preface in Peterson’s and McKenny’s A Field Guide to Wildflowers:
“The majority of flowers that grow in vacant lots and along roads are aliens. . .Some, like the day-lily of Asia, escaped from gardens, but most came unseen, as seeds mixed in with shipments from across the sea. The first known station for a foreign plant is often at a seaport or along a railroad track.”
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