Poetry Elaine Rumboll Poetry Elaine Rumboll

Planting Flowers

I spent today planting flowersPetunias, pansies, spirea, statice

Not Waitsian halloween orange or chimenee red But green as wise Rosemary Pink as my desire to remain curious and as Purple as the disobedient.

I spent today planting flowers on a tiny balcony because I needed to feel grounded

and connected.

I have spent years growing others and more lately staring at digitised screens to construct meaning.

And I realise now that nothing could be more sensuous and beautiful than to stand in the sun in a light summer dress

willing life into things that are small and nascent.

Future scripts.

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