Greenhouse
busy with
other things
made my way back
last night
to my poor plants
and saw that they’d held up
in my absence
as I went around watering
I found a single stem
a long-stem white rose
in full bloom
its moonlight glow
two days before
Christmas
had been growing quiet
and I never saw it
that morning
when we laid the cat
inside
and I never saw it
that night
when we took him out
to bury him
but it was there all along
its fragrance
in the air
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