“You used to think flowers extravagant” out today in Book of Matches

You used to think flowers extravagant

A time before orchids–

your duct-taped tennis shoe

childhood, my extravagant 

green thumb mother.

Dendrobium in the wild

roots over branches

delicate and intimate

Dendros: tree  Bios: life

dangling survivors in desert

cloud forest, jungle.

[read the whole poem in the issue]