Kingdom
The flowers of lion’s teeth
withered. We blew
and they lifted.
White globes barely
held together, holding,
then exploding.
In hand, wind-downed
sticks were scepters.
Clover knotted
into coronation crowns.
All of
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder is the author of the poetry collection Inked, winner of the 2014 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize (Texas Review Press, 2015). She has been awarded an AWP Intro Journals Award in