Flower Ghosts

Phantasms sneaking

out of blooms in gardens

often guiltily seek pardons

that the Universe

will always grant:

to slip away from

the embodied plant –

become the ghosts

of all the stems and roots

that were their hosts –

is not, in fact, a sin:

spirits of the vegatively

actual remain contractually

in another indivisibly,

invisibly embracing power –

the Universe becomes

what it has always been:

their only flower.

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