ooh I love it! And "fragile flowers fall like snow"--I've seen that, not with almond blossoms but cottonwood blossoms. Love how you brought Van Gogh's painting to a whole new level.
Also about your poem... my little sister spent some time at Breckenridge Hospital in Austin when she was about six months old. She had a mysterious high fever. So the baby with fever too high has a strange personal resonance. My youngest brother was born there, also, after it had been renamed St David's.
Lent indeed lumbers. What a great word.
You & Van Gogh inspire me!
https://madhatterpoetry.com/2025/04/02/fruit-and-nuts/
ooh I love it! And "fragile flowers fall like snow"--I've seen that, not with almond blossoms but cottonwood blossoms. Love how you brought Van Gogh's painting to a whole new level.
I give you the blue
sky, cloudless and clear. I give
you knobby branches
festooned with white flowers. I
give serenity.
Oh! Those kinds of blue and white are bet kinds of singing.
Thanks so much for your poem, Melanie.
Blue and white together always sing in my soul.
Thank you again for the inspiration.
Also about your poem... my little sister spent some time at Breckenridge Hospital in Austin when she was about six months old. She had a mysterious high fever. So the baby with fever too high has a strange personal resonance. My youngest brother was born there, also, after it had been renamed St David's.
Oh wow, Melanie. Yes, such overlap! This was back in 1972, so treatment was not as sophisticated as it is now.
I was born and raised in Austin--went to Eanes ISD for K-12, back when there were only three schools in the entire district.