ASIN: B01GNCIAV4
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 41
As I age, present reality dwindles in importance. I am no longer interested in so many of the great questions that bedevil our human species in this Yearof Our Lord, 2016. I can no longer abide the yap yap yapping of even my closestfriends. They little know how I favor them by listening to what can interest mein no way at all.The "must read" book. The "must listen to" music. The "must new rage" poem, The "must titillating" sporting achievement. All these shrink with every season into nothingness. However, there is one thing that never loses its impact for me... a thing I cannot view with equanimity, and without regret. A thing that comes but once a year, and stays but briefly. A thing that little children and yearning poets, unkempt, love to distraction, and that thing is flowers.In one unflinching explosion of color, this little thing, seemingly so vulnerableand frail, shows us what ...
