Thriving

Close up photo of an orange flower bud on the plant, its veins visible.

Printed precisely,
pulsing with life, as human
veins of a flower.

Missed

photo of a canopy of bright pink flowers and yellowish green leaves overhead, as seen from below

Flowers overhead,
blossoming into rainbows—
we look down at phones.

New job

close up photo of a bright red flower with the morning sun shining directly on it

Sun-kissed good mornings:
head high, heart swelling with pride;
flower’s first work day.

Natural progression

close up photo of a white bottlebrush flower, partly in bloom — White bottlebrush

Fists tightly curled up,
babies unravel slowly—
bottlebrushes, too.

Dying

close up photo of a freshly-fallen lacebark flower on a bed of dried, old leaves

Angelic flower
lays on a bed of autumn
disintegrating.