September 2024

Oddly or not, I'm quite enamored by dying plants:

the way they let go quietly and how I continue 

to offer them water and carry them from 

sunlight to darkness

wishing for one more day

thanking them for beauty

I've always been in love with the unfolding

tulips as they surrendered their golden inners

turning themselves inside out & upside down

colors that fade & fall: I saved spent blossoms

kept them in glass jars and on windowsills

Now, I let them fall onto the kitchen table

I sit with them as I say my goodbyes

xo