Photo of the Week: "Moment of Bloom"

Poem of the Week:  "Certain Flowers" by Gwen McEwen

some unthinking god

threw me cold violets last morning

when the rain was a prince in the garden.

said: here, define a certain fear in flowers,

chalk out quickly the peril of beauty,

said softly this, as I worried private light

among the blooms

and stretched a half-winged bird of verse

to band the prince, the bloodless blossoms.

some unthinking god

is made of towering flowers; his eye

in the tall blue tulip sky,

a profound petal there; I arrest its blooming.

I want the flowers beheaded,

the garden sink,

the rain deny its claim to princedom there

and stand in a garden of void

applauding, tracing the biographies

of brief past flowers, capturing the moment of bloom

in a cage of my own sunlight.