Flowers in the Garden

<p><em>flowers in the garden</em> is a hybrid chapbook of poetry and prose in which eight plants are given voices - and what they say is not what you expect.</p><p></p><p>Poppy speaks of morphine and mercy and the thin line between relief and ruin. Chamomile tends the grief you don't want witnessed. Motherwort holds what the body has learned to lie about. Nightshade doesn't apologize for being misread. Yarrow grows on battlefields and teaches the wound to close itself. Each plant carries a history - medicinal mythological emotional - and each one becomes a mirror for something deeply human: pain abandonment endurance the long work of healing.</p><p></p><p>The writing moves between lyric prose and spare poetry unhurried and precise rooted in the belief that the natural world has always had a language for what we cannot say directly. This is not a botanical study. It is a garden where everything is listening.</p><p></p><p><em>28 pages. Eight plants. One invitation.</em> Published by Thistle & Thread Press Wisconsin.</p>