flowers on the lawn

 

they came

placed flowers on the lawn

on the small patch of grass

at the front of her house

 

she always had flowers 

everywhere

so they placed the flowers on the lawn

just as I’d asked them to

 

 

dead flowers 

because they’d been cut 

arranged in different ways

bouquets shapes letters 

 

dead flowers on the lawn

 

around the neat cut lawn

were bergonias bizzy lizzies

a red rose with a bee on it

 

a hydrangea with sea blue pom pom flowers

 

neighbours brought more flowers

laid them on the lawn

an island of vibrant dead flowers 

 

circled by

bergonias bizzy lizzies 

a red rose

 

a hydrangea with sea blue pom pom flowers 

and bees

 

the flowers around the lawn were alive 

as she’d left them 

moving with the breeze

bending with the bees

 

live flowers that she left 

circling the heavy dead

that lay thick on the lawn