harvesting colour – Sea Lavender
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Sea Lavender, picked long ago and woven into a wreath
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Sea Lavender
Limonium Nashii Small.
1.
bunch of lavender, dry
picked at the edge
of the sea
2.
at high tide, overcome
by salt water, linear
leaves buffeted
as rags, tattered purple papers
echoed in oil-slick
mirrors of foam
3.
on-shore breeze, stiff
sprays of Sea Lavender
tremble
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Published as ‘Sea Lavender’, Canadian Stories 17 (99),October/November 2014
Copyright 2014 Jane Tims
dry Sea Lavender
nichepoetryandprose 
Sprays of Sea Lavender… beautiful. Lovely poem, Jane. I’ve never heard of Sea Lavender.
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Robin
October 22, 2014 at 12:14 pm
Hi Robin. It must grow where you are … tidal flats, big flat green leaves. I have noticed it is not as common as when I was in university. Jane
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jane tims
October 25, 2014 at 9:42 am