The Meanest Flower by Mimi Khalvati

Author:Mimi Khalvati [Mimi Khalvati]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847777959
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2011-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Overblown Roses

She held one up, twirling it in her hand

as if to show me how the world began

and ended in perfection. I was stunned.

How could she make a rose so woebegone,

couldn’t silk stand stiff? And how could a child,

otherwise convinced of her mother’s taste,

know what to think? It’s overblown, she smiled,

I love roses when they’re past their best.

‘Overblown roses’, the words rang in my head,

making sense as I suddenly saw afresh

the rose now, the rose ahead: where a petal

clings to a last breath; where my mother’s flesh

and mine, going the same way, may still

be seen as beautiful, if these words are said.

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