Poppy Seeds on Her Head

Called the Windpoppy and Spanish marigold, the Poppy anemone is actually in the Buttercup family.  Sound like names of fairies dancing in the garden.  Poppy, Anemone and Buttercup.  We went to a town Bloc Party yesterday to listen to music, see people we know, buy stupid hats and watch kids roll logs.  At a Maine town fair, kids climb onto a huge log that's floating in big tank of water the size of small parking lot.  And then they try to stay upright on the rolling log by taking tiny footsteps forward at a fast pace.  The wind was blowing and people were holding down their booth tents.  June in May can be brisk.  But everybody seemed so happy to be milling around.  The pandemic lingers but life as more normal is setting in.  We stopped at a booth advertising recycling and composting and this tall brunette handed me a single poppy anemone, this black and white guy here.  It's actually a weed, native to the Mediterranean.  As we drove home I said to my husband, "Don't you love these flowers?"  And he said, "No.  I hate that dark black center.  Flowers shouldn't be so dark in the center."  "Who are you?"  I laughed.  In Greek mythology the lover of Aphrodite, Adonis, was killed while hunting boar.  When Aphrodite found him dead red poppy anemones blossomed from her tears that fell to the ground.  Yikes.  Good thing the one the recycling gal handed me was white!  In fact, that white poppy symbolizes peace in Western worlds.  I guess if you access the small amounts of cocaine and codeine it contains you will drift off into peaceful reverie.  A google search turned up the Poppy Goddess.  She's a female figurine found in Gazi, Greece, dated around 1300 BC.  With poppy seeds on her head she is believed to be the Minoan Goddess of Poppies and Patron of Healing.  Ok, adding this to my dancing in the moonlight to the glow of Shasta daisy blooms, smoking hydrangea leaves with the deer and now, eating this member of the buttercup family to find peace and healing.  But I don't want to eat too much cause I might get diarrhea.  If I ate twenty of them I just might die.  I hope Poppy, Anemone and Buttercup will be there, partying when we should be sleeping, leaping around with Miss Goddess Poppy who wears poppy seeds on her head.