Artist: Diego Rivera b. 1886, Guanajuato, Mexico; d. 1957, Mexico City Mexico Title: The Flower Vendor Date: 1941 Information found here: www.nortonsimon.org/art/detail/P.1980.2.3/ In the midst of the "American Dream" the weight of beauty pulls you into yourself; naked feet, vanishing underneath what’s lovely and pure; a valley of white lilies, waiting, inside what is tired, And calloused, inside your sickly self moving. But then, you remind yourself to kneel before the flowers and thank them for the journey, and the hands, and tears that tied it all together; and the miracle that not one was lost...
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