Untitled 12

for Diego Rivera's Flower Vendor

​Artist: Diego Rivera
b. 1886, Guanajuato, Mexico; d. 1957, Mexico City Mexico
Title: The Flower Vendor
Date: 1941
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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;
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and the miracle 
that not one was lost...