OM – Organic Minimalism # 173 Flowers Had Bloomed Overnight

I left the morning paper

by the coffee cup

the heat was 85 like the

year

and I went to the window to find

that flowers had bloomed overnight

to replace the bodies

felled in the war

the enemy had come with fire

and ruse

to stamp the names of the dead

in the gardens of Yohmor

It is not because spring

is too beautiful

that we’ll not write what

happens in the dark.

*

A butterfly came to die

between two stones

at the foot of the Mountain

the mountain shed shadows

over it

to cover the secret of

death.

– Etel Adnan