Flowers

Yellow flowers for fever and jaundice
for wounds in flush
white flowers for unambiguity – joy
beauty

as bouquet or herbal remedy
a simple combination

and on the day they last forever
just as thought-they-would

when some mental contrivance
searched for flowers to foist

as palliative encryption.
best to preserve the bunch

in formaldehyde and litter

.

the imperfect burnt letter

to a bushland for branding.
Unlikely that fire will arrive

anywhere near where you live.
So the glass jar with the preserved
enjambment of love and protection

will not crack under the heat of
blazes.

We will know where to find the jar
of flowers

covered by stringy red bark and tree skin.