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Day 11

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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