Purple Stalks and Black Berries



Purple stalks and black berries

Pretty to look at, but not merry

For beneath the cute appearance

Is a deadly poison in the clearance



Best to just look at them, not to touch

For those bright colors are so very much

Vivid in the way they take over the road edge

Just begging the unwary to come and fetch



- Tristram



(c) Christopher W. Thomas

4:10pm Friday, Nov. 6th, 1998