What are the chrysanthemums saying?
\nThe flowers extend like an open palm
\nas if reaching.
\nWhat is the artist saying?
\nWhose fingers does he want
\nto touch his hand?
\nI see love, tenderness,
\nas if the blossoms are children
\narranged in a delicate pose.
\nAs if the artist is asking,
\nare they not heaven and earth?<\/p>\n
A family that filled
\nthe walls of his life.
\nOr the totality of the palm\u2019s gesture
\nto someone he would never
\ntouch again.
\nA death?
\nA fading catastrophe?
\nOr a child lost,
\ndisappeared into another life,
\nwho he dreams of,
\nlistening to his stories,
\nracing after balls,
\nor roughhoused tenderly,
\nas father and son.<\/p>\n
Something provocative lingers
\nin the picture.
\nSublimity and sadness.
\nIs the secret in the chrysanthemums
\nhis resignation,
\nhis determination
\nnot to lose what was wonderful
\nto his life?
\nA man who looks to the space
\nleft at the end,
\nand he offers
\nthe last thing he has,
\nthe remains of the beautiful
\ninside him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What are the chrysanthemums saying? The flowers extend like an open palm as if reaching. What is the artist saying? Whose fingers does he want…<\/p>\n