Monday, October 21, 2024

Because the Frost Is Late This Year

The nasturtiums have flourished enough
to escape their bed, and long, round
stems stretch down from the wooden
box and run between rows along the garden
paths, and it’s a freaking insurgence
of blooming, a mutiny of beauty, a
rebellion of splendor and my god if
I don’t just stand here in the paths, stunned
by the unlikely blessing, cursed with my
knowledge of how quickly it all can die, but
today, just look at it, today, I don’t even
try not to praise it, instead I stand in
the midst of improbable glory and fall
in love with all these gold and orange
petals and wide rounded leaves, barely
able to breathe past the ache of how all
we love will leave us—even the wildest
of blossomings, even the most unruly
of beauties, even what looks as if it’s
so alive it could take over the whole world.

-- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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