"dream in color"

"withered"

"august"

"Whatever is silenced will clamour to be heard,

though silently."

― Margaret Atwood

"summer bouquet"

"rose bundle"

"ruffles"

"The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided 

transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry."

― Herbert Spencer

"peonies"

. . . 

"Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, 

and softly, 

and exclaiming of their dearness, 

fill your arms with the white and pink flowers,

with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, 

their eagerness

to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are

nothing, forever?"

― Mary Oliver, from "Peonies"

iris .1

Iris ― goddess of the rainbow, who acted as a messenger of the gods

iris .2

"wake awaiting"

"autumn in the window"

For you, Dad!

"begonia"

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way ― 

things I had no words for."

― Georgia O'Keeffe

"the ƎVO⅃-ution of an iris"

[re]calling its name

"irises"

a tender flower-
bed of irides blooming

"thicket"

"same different blue"

"different, like you."

.

"soon or later, different scares people."

"off the path"

fall-[in'] prints

"red leaf"

of all the colourful leaves on the ground a young couple fell in love 

with precisely this one, eagerly took it with them right after I had a single shot, 

and not before kindly asking if I would be keeping it, to myself. "of course, not," 

was my answer, "eternity has it now." the earth blushing. I smile.