Chicory Blue

of roadside colour and pioneer coffee

Your erudition the elegant flower of which

my blue chicory at scrub end of campus ditch

illuminates

Lorine Niedecker

Manitoulin island Chicory portrait by Mariana La France (from her instagram islands in Lakes which is one of those accounts that gives you hope for social media)

In inkmaking workshops people often tell me that they love a certain flower and …