A contemporary poem about width of the stem, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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A stem begins as a narrow decision. It rises without knowing the width of arrival. At the top, colour opens its hands. No gardener appears to take the credit. The living thing keeps widening, spending its silence into bloom.
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