Between Creation and Collapse
Between Creation and Collapse How she came to be is something of a mystery that she grew to love in a winter garden is a wonder of the world Her spirit pruned cut off at the roots yet like a weed she pushed her way upward through the broken concrete of her dreams Flowering at last under the cloudy skies of the past possessing the fierceness of feral growing things loving the sun but not hating the rain I picture her with flowers entwined in her hair as she carries a garden tucked safely in her arms The reality quite possibly much less romantic but far more endearing holding a small child's need with a bird's nest for hair a vignette of life in the morning sun