Painting by Ruthie Kellar
Listen: Song by Kristi Lee
Consider the Flowers
Consider the flowers
Loosening from the sepalum guard
Unfurling under heavenly watch
Clothing grass, crowning fallow fields
Ripening into color
Gently cupped in invitation
Follow the footprints of pollinators
Down the lines into center
Deep where the dew pools
Stay a moment
Before fragrance scatters her favors
And browning blossoms curl in again
Collapsing into earth’s short term memory
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