Stinking Chamomile, Göteborg, May 13th 2002

forty new buds on the potted Anthemis
and in the section of lawn
where some of the Chamomiles
testify to the eye as more greyish green
and built more squatly than their neighbours
and speak to the nose
in a pungent, absinthian way
Erik counted forty new plants
of this CRitically endangered species

so I have informed the Head of Maintenance
there, in the Next Block
(species data sheet and map sketch)
and unless they forget
it will be left alone to flower and set seed

FORGET? Hah!!!