The function of a violet is to grow
out of dead leaves,
turning decay
into itself.
A poem too builds a little sense
from the rubble of life (what branches grow
out of this stony *******?). One and the other
flower according to their nature,
seen by those
who know what they are looking for.
A violet is not a poem,
but the message is the same.
The quotation in brackets is from TS Eliot's "The Waste Land".