said let's buy tulips because you were homesick twenty-four hour florist late-night emergency the tulips sat inside a cool store freezer still wet & trembling fragile as a whispered wish (we said let's buy some tulips today there's more sun than cloud their powers are quite expensive but what does money matter (when there's more sun than clouds scanning the supermarket aisles for some sprinkles early in the morning (we said let's buy some sprinkles when you were thinking of home i was thinking of the sun we took photographs of tulips they were orange as bush fire suns (& wet as clouds & our faces looking up to see sprinkles saw twinkles in the blank sky (homesick & hereImage credit:
Ad Muller