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“a garden in grief”    

perennial sea-lavender:
an ironic choice for a funeral
for someone who has ceased
to continue, their life
broken as the browning
brittle stalks of this 
uprooted bloom, its blossoms
still bright and beautiful
shades of dark slate blue,
Mountain’s Majesty, and 
Rebecca purple–denying 
the death that creeps 
slowly upward

the roots are already gone
the heads have yet to realize.

*inspired by photos of funeral flowers