Songs:Astilbe (103679)
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Lui Collins With apologies to any horticulturists, who will have immediately recognized that the plant described is not astilbe at all – it’s actually a type of kalanchoe. I claim poetic license on this one, as I didn’t find that out till after the poem was written. I kept the original for the sheer pleasure of the sound of the word. On my father’s invitation I went home despite fears of awkwardness chose reconciliation I sat with him as evening deepened spinning fragile words into the air hoping against hope to span the distance grown between us Later, on the bedside table: astilbe. Tiny bright red blossoms, shining green leaves roots descending into a Mason jar. I would not have known their name but for my mother’s morning query did I enjoy the flowers in my room? “Your father insisted there must be flowers.” A long ago conversation springs to mind my father’s tears and the corsage he brought me later “to my beautiful daughter” Like a blackboard eraser rubbing away all trace of ancient chalk in an abandoned schoolroom Grace again wipes clean the slate I have come home to bright midwinter promise in a Mason jar of flowers at my bedside. Astilbe. February 11, 2002 and June 20, 2004 Fathers’ Day
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