and wherever
and wherever happens
in this small globe, come summer,
come the rise of moisture,
come the business of spiders
through the dew-
beaded tussock, will be
written here,
come the flower.

Cross-pollinating the stalwart pocket field guide with the genre of poetry, anthology's poems convey stories that together create a life. Delving into the lives of our lesser-known native flowers, this collection animates the natural world of Aotearoa New Zealand with a playfulness of words and the skilful layering of ideas.