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Mother’s Day
By Anna Alexander
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My father always gifted mother
with flowers
Not bouquets but potted plants
so she could plant them
And make them last past
that brief day
The year I was born in the new
house purchased
to make room for me
The fourth child
He gave her a pot of a
single iris
Mother planted it in the
new backyard
By the time I was in school
the iris bed
Was a ribbon of green each
spring from that
Single pot of a single
iris bloom
Eventually another ribbon
waved along the
Side of the front porch
and when we
Married and left home
bought our homes
A bushel of iris from
mother’s lot
Would find a new home
and make a ribbon
In our yards reminding
us how much
One can do with a single
bulb and patience …
And Love.
anna alexander
April 29, 2006©
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