How the Garden Grows (WC)

  

(April 19, 2023, Orthodox Bright Wednesday, and feast day of Our Lady of Lyons and of (above) Saint Emma of Saxony. On Jewish calendar today: Omer Day 13, Jericho's Wall Collapses (1273 BC) and Rebbe's Call (1991). Image from here.)

How the Garden Grows

[We] carry within us

an orchard…

–Li-Young Lee

and if hours be flowers

are minutes the powers 

for their bloom? If so

step slow 

into this 

one,

turn to Joseph, says

a good life it’s

             good food,

              friends, 

                flowers

and that problems, like petals,

you cup them in your hands 

turn them upside down,

they drop into God’s hands–-

new fruit then, in

good season.

*From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by etymology of “flower”, and by “Flowers” by Cynthia Zarin and “From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee. From Lisa Freedman's BreatheReadWrite, April 19, 2023.