Flowers Innominate

flower in hair
dolled up
flower in hair
no make-up
flower in hair -
fair hair
dark hair
soft
curly
long hair – shorter
all color

      peony
      rose
      frangipani
      orchid
blooms innominate

some can only be pronounced
in the language of flowers
in hair

all these have legs
all these girls
are women with flowers

the women are showing you
what all this means to you
it is something
the women know that
they have flowers in their hair
to show that

flowers need no pro-nouns
they know the names
you have yet to learn
      unless
you have a flower in your hair also
    long legs
    shorter legs
    grey hair
    fake hair
    strange hair
    tangled hair
    the flowers do not care
    
    the flowers do not care
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