Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Thursday 1 February 2018

I learned the names of trees

and types of cloud
and wild flowers
at an early age
from my mother.
Most kids now
could not identify an acorn*
or a horse-chestnut**
without a spot of Google-bother.

* amusingly called gland (=glans) in French
**also called a conker and a cheeser

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