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Mother’s Day
By Anna Alexander
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©
Photo: Yellow Iris
By Alex Carrier 2005
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