LEARNING A SUBTLETY
On Mondays,
I buy tulips, tight-lipped
and green-enveloped.
I do not know enough
to know what they will be
when opened.
The coral ones last week
revealed a yellow edge
I did not know was hiding
in the inward curl
of freshness. New buds,
nestled in the angle
of leaf and stem,
keep growing as each
flower lengthens, craning
its neck over the vase’s lip,
unwilling to stop
because of a mere
cut.
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