the taunting of The Purple Chrysanthemum With The Golden Center

: wailed the wildflowers to The Purple Chrysanthemum
With The Golden Center: Where did you come from? why
are you here??   —You don’t belong!

                                                      *

God set me right here. Her soft reply

as yet another petal dropped. She wavered slightly
in a zephyr. And as she spoke she wondered, too,
and,

                                                   drooping, wept              smiled