Uvularia grandiflora in western Iowa’s Loess Hills, late May. Bellwort has rarely been documented in this region, the extreme western reach of its range. Photo by Robert Smith.

Elsewhere Uvularia*

One most likely finds this magic 

in climes much wetter more mossy and rarely 

at times delights a wildling a feral-poet or fae

who ponders these deeply vagrant ravines  

who ventures a gaze too steep are these hollows

so seemingly elsewhere but here.

*Becoming a Naturalist Part 55  by Jack Phillips.