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NEW-CUE, Inc. is a non-profit, environmental education organization founded primarily to assist writers and educators who are dedicated to enhancing the public's awareness of environmental issues.
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Benjamin Vogt
Benjamin Vogt is a Ph.D. candidate in poetry and creative nonfiction at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is also an editorial assistant for Prairie Schooner. Poems and prose have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Fugue, Puerto del Sol, and Verse Daily. Benjamin has a poetry chapbook, Indelible Marks, available from Pudding House.
Deadheading
Deadheading
Each clump
of pinched blooms
on the concrete,
like burial mounds
or funeral pyres,
leaves evidence
of its parting:
the imperfect cut,
the diseased stem
now yellowed thin—
the week by week mistakes
of disintegrating matter.
Between one last
green stem still pulsing
and a new leaf’s bend
back toward earth,
a pink head pushes
from sudden absence.
Forced, it tries to open,
color its thin petals amber,
until giving in
to autumn—nearly
luminous, almost
numinous and in danger
of becoming more than us.
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