Say it Like Flowers

Say it Like Flowers

Grace Shaw

The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.
— Isaiah 40:8

Say it like you eat death for breakfast,
breaking up earth with purples.

Say it bright yellow like pollen
on hands and shirts.

Say it: something complex,
compounded with petals
in all directions begging
a hundred, unanswered questions.

Say it right, like daisies drooping
defiant in the fist of a child
arrested protesting war.

Say glory in the morning,
and at night, things prim
like roses.

Say it now,
because you are here now.
Now is a flowering place.

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Grace Shaw
Poet

Grace is the winner of the “Audience Choice Award” in the annual Bright Wings Poetry Contest hosted in partnership with Makers & Mystics.

Photography by Crina Parasca