Birthed from the Underworld Woman rose connected to mud by the umbilici of her knees. She wandered earth surface bubbling and rippling. Woman planted a seed in her womb and between her legs blossomed the first lily. Woman molted a mudskin and made Man who plucked the lily. Summer Bouquet in a Vase Glazed dark eye of a sunflower, red zinnias, a long sculpted twig.
Flowers harden, shed their petals.
Inside the glass a mossy green film. But the twig sprouts fetal leaves so tentative they disappear with distance. Roots in the water thick and translucent as fingers. Don't throw it out. An amputated leg growing a body.