The Bud
the bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don't flower,
for everything flowers from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on the brow
of a flower,
and retell it in words and touch,
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing
Galway Kinnell