thornapple

I plucked from the moonflower a dried thornapple that had split into four neat sections, and shook nine dark seeds into my palm.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I split open the dried thornapple and offered the brown seeds to a breeze that whistled down the gorge, so Moonflower might take root where it suited her, in the muck by the river or the cracks between boulders.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I split open the dried thornapple and offered the brown seeds to a breeze that whistled down the gorge, so Moonflower might take root where it suited her, in the muck by the river or the cracks between boulders.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I split open the dried thornapple and offered the brown seeds to a breeze that whistled down the gorge, so Moonflower might take root where it suited her, in the muck by the river or the cracks between boulders.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I plucked from the moonflower a dried thornapple that had split into four neat sections, and shook nine dark seeds into my palm.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I sat on the stairs outside the shrine and pressed the brittle spikes of a thornapple into my palm.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I sat on the stairs outside the shrine and pressed the brittle spikes of a thornapple into my palm.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I plucked from the moonflower a dried thornapple that had split into four neat sections, and shook nine dark seeds into my palm.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I sat on the stairs outside the shrine and pressed the brittle spikes of a thornapple into my palm.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Otherwise it was mostly young second-growth forest, meadows, stone walls, and recently abandoned farmland pastures, orchards, and woodlots growing thick with blackberry and thornapple, alder and poplar, pine and hemlock, and oak and beech.

Five Aces 2002