'Flies and Lowes

The summer lilac has been called
a noxious weed a hundred years;
and this one in the garden section, 
may have flown much further 
than the butterflies, for which 
the plant is also named.

The carbon used to cultivate
this cultivar, the plastic for
its current cup, and water 
wasted on cement before 
my feet, weigh heavy on 
the nascent beauty of my lawn.

But ignorant of all this fret
that brought the present 
pistils to this place, a
Delaware-orange skipper
loves it yet, in front of me
she lands and feeds her face.