Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Language of flowers

The women next door moved in last week

I can see her on her knees

from my office. She is weeding my

Sarah’s garden. I watch as she naively

tosses my marigolds away, left over from

the funeral. Hope she keeps the rose bushes

but Sarah’s in no position to have

favorites anymore. Six feet underground and all.


the empty vase on the windowsill

remembering it filled with first purple lilacs,

then carnations in white, pink and red,

once, while fighting, yellow roses

then, right before everything spiraled,

forget-me-nots

and a single

red

rose


(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_flowers)

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