Flowers

FLOWERS Bluebells sing of jolly spring days In damp fields with sparkling rills And the scented blue haze Filling our nostrils Hidden in bunches of daffodils in rooms Are cemetery visits to make the stones neat And replace spent plastic blooms Wilting in the heat Chauffeur-driven car and chrysanthemums Suggest weddings with expensive foods And speeches and photo albums And windshields ribboned to hoods.