sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness

The bud

stands for all things,

even those things that don’t flower,

for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;

though sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing it’s loveliness, 

to put a hand on its brow

of the flower

and retell it in words and in touch

it is lovely

until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing

~from Saint Francis and the Sow by Galway Kinnell

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Photo by Sandra Peterson Ramirez.