In attempts to keep my dearest things safe, I hide them very carefully and forget. Keys, dry flowers, letters, earrings, tickets I've travelled on, love. Often I find them lying around in folds of sweaters, under pillows, in food cans, in old books, in hearts. Often I find them when they are not needed anymore.
everyday I go to sleep flowers grow on me like they grow on graves, sensing death bit by bit
midway in my dreams I wake up to pull them away maybe I still see life in everyday I'm too fertile, like the cracked open soil eaten by worms qualified to become a good flowerbed with tinge of salt and warmth
what when one of these days I sleep with no feeling of grief and lie down welcoming the smell of poppies and lillies?