Oh really! Well, Arbutus unedo -- strawberry tree. In the manzanita family. White flowers, bumpy red and yellow fruit. It is said the fruit is edible, though an unusual texture. I've never reached high enough to try a taste. A nectar source for the California Dogface butterfly & the Monarch, too.
DREAMS ARE The SOURCE Of NECTAR
Her dream lifted her to where the sky is full of strawberries. Tasting just one, she awoke as a Monarch butterfly.
Rearrangements (from May 2010, Constellations)
ReplyDeleteThe learning river overflows across the plains
and delivers a message of despair
Walking toward a horizon and a figure
appears to be in trouble
Old and awful voices string out along the church halls
So now eternity is on the menu, oafish concerns
Left at the barnyard door. The hook is hanging
on the battered wall and is unlikely to hold
Streaking across the meridian, an arc of copper,
sweet ore of the earth, rain somewhere headed here
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