It's an annual Allen Ginsberg tradition - it's the flowering kousa dogwood, planted in his honor, by friends and supporters at the St Mark's Church (his "church" - home to the venerable St Mark's Poetry Project - ("The Poetry Project burns like red hot coal in New York's snow", Allen once wrote) - and flowering each year, right around this time (perfect natural timing) on his birthday - although this year it's been a pretty tough winter/an alarmingly late spring - (notwithstanding, you can still see those little white flowers brazenly peeking out).
Check in with our previous kousa dogwood postings here, here, here and here.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALLEN!
OM AH HUM. The flowering dogwood is whiter than Allen's multi-colored self. Thanks and praises to the Great Bard, a singular teacher, lover, friend.
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