Visiting Crescent Bay today to walk the dog, I noticed the lovely pink carpet of wildflowers spreading in the tan sand. I realized it is a wildflower that also grows in my lawn, pinweed or Stork’s Bill, Erodium cicutarium. It’s a lovely little flower that usually does not grow this large in the lawn, but here it is a lovely carpet. And so, a haiku.
About the plant:
- Forest Service
- Burke Herbarium
- Contour Art based on pigweed
- Two previous poems and identification story
Sand’s Pink Carpet
The beach sandy brown
Sheri Edwards
today carpeted in pink
petals, pinweed blooms.
National Poetry Month
Pinweed, Erodium cicutarium
Haiku
4/29/26
I wonder, if I draw a line... 