Peonies are large luminous flowers with no discernable scent . .
Their skins are crushed together in the rain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The petals of the peony are innumerable, each is different from the other. The petals grow smaller in the center, half formed in a flurry of birth. . . . . . These inner petals take the form of a wing, an arm, a sickle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In the center is a flurry of pollen.