350/365 Longings of the Milky Way

Untitled by Willow Harth

This poem is not meant for you unless you too have been underground choking on your life’s debris, and playing peek-a-boo with death seriously

then the surprise of ten thousand buttercups out of nowhere on every side where they’d never been before on my daily walk might have had the effect on you it did on me

because suddenly

I wanted to understand how these particular flowers came to be—the whole evolutionary history of mosses, ferns and angiosperms, the miracle of photosynthesis and DNA, not

to mention the longings of the Milky Way to reflect itself in the form called flowers and in these buttercups, which seemed like a visitation from the sun, urging me to tell you, in case like me you had forgotten

we are the universe’s latest way of blooming.

Before and After(bit.ly/350BeforeandAfter)

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