orchid mother
my niece so proud
because she has kept
an orchid alive
and had it bud and bloom
in winter

first year out of home
she lives in our backyard
and stumbles through
grown up  requirements
such as order and bill paying

the way she hangs clothes
on a line to dry is a form
of origami made into abstract art

but she is so proud of the big white
bloom and growing green buds