This poem is taken from PN Review 36, Volume 10 Number 4, March - April 1984.
Rice Grass
Praise one appearing
lowly, no man's rose,
but with roots far-reaching
out and down.
Give homage to a spartan cross,
native and American,
hardier and more adaptable
than those; nearly a newcomer
but one that, by staying put
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