Tuesday, June 12, 2018

SHOW AND TELL

Encouraged
by more than a little

smattering
of applauding rain,

the pink-
tickled rose petal—increases

the spill
of its gingerly spiral,

thrusting the gradually
stiffening design

half an
insect wing's-

length farther upward,
as if

to prove
the Milky Way.