Poppies

Within three weeks, so many people were influenced to come pose in the flowery poppy hills that the city had to figure out how to intervene. After a Lake Elsinore official was hit by a car, and a visitor was bit by a rattlesnake, the California city shut down access to Walker Canyon, the main trailhead, from the nearest roads and set up a $5 shuttle service to bring visitors from the local outlet malls. But the hordes found other places to park and walk in, and the city lacked the manpower to enforce the closure.
NYT

to intervene with beauty is a parlous thing

when poppies bloom out of control

the residents of nearby cities

should gracefully retreat

leaving the flowers to exult alone

and if interlopers crash through the stalks

to crush the bright petals

in a mad attempt at capturing beauty

the poppies will deal with them

deal with them in such a way

that they will never be heard from

again