One

Two

Three

Four

Five

red garden pots

Stacked up

Tumbling yet steady

A leaning tower of bloom



Wet to the touch and cold


Glistening with precious water

Eagerly the flowers drink

Bright one catches the light

Clever sunny esperanza

The purple eloquent and elegant and

elegiac

Red - or fuchsia or magenta or rose or nobody knows -

Patient

Empathetic

Kind

Small orange flower


cheerfully embraces the day - mysteries and all -

embodiment of optimism

Ruddy young cactus is hanging on

A while longer


Today it gives all it’s worth

One large rock

and a twisted bit of wood

and a pebble

so tiny to the world

but i suppose


not so tiny to the flowers