Arranging Flowers
The tulips know.
Put them in a vase.
Observe myopic stems
heavy with thirst.
Observe choreography
that lifts lion heads
again and again in
different calisthenics
until blowsy with life,
no petal left unfolding,
they seek beneath bowl
and table the steady
pulse of life
Copyright © Nola Perez | Year Posted 2013
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