
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.