Tag: flowers
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What Happens When Joy Fills You?
Do you break open? Do you fall down? Do you float away? Are we vessels for joy? Maybe. And, like, a lot of others things, too, right? Like pain and despair and incredulousness and dignity, honor, pride, grief, and boredom, and… We carry EVERYTHING. Joy makes us feel alive I think. It feels like the…
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Seeing Love
Squished banana adornes the counter, turning formica to quartz, sparkling, innocence like the eyes of infants. A vase is filled, broccoli blooms buttery and the cilantro bolts to corriander, tiny white flowers like lace. Stalks of swiss chard, their deep red veins and ruffling green leaves stand supportive at the bouquet’s back and the mint…
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Gifts
My girls bring flowers they pick from around our brick house, sprigs of lavender, blooms of crysanthemum, leaves of weigela. I fill the clear glass jar with indigo, orange, and burgundy. Like God on my sill it sits, gifts from gifts.
Amy Secrist 