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Cornflowers

From the May 2007 Print Edition

I give you for consideration the reason why cornflowers defy the certainty of asphalt. Impediments to progress are often weed-like, fragile-flowered. Cornflowers will persist; the unexpected thrusts of blue that line the cracks of paved convenience twinge the heart a bit to new recall. Pray we do . . . . Continue Reading »