Urtica Dioica (Stinging Nettles) “out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety” -Henry IV, Part 1, Act II, Scene 3

Give me the spring sting of the nettle

Long before it’s flowering

When the poison

Is at it’s strongest

Dripping from
Young

Red brown 

Hypodermic needle hairs

Hanging from the dorsal side

Of green toothy serrated leaves

Perrenial parasthesia

Setting in

Numbing

This bitter winter

Past