I ask myself though there is no answer, I know. Of what will bring me solace. Not the camellia that comes with snow I could not suffer winter too. The peony though brave to risk the spring misplaced here with its good fortune. The rose, no, no, You, un-temperamental, know no pretense of a diva. I need to spare the scotch Or else be sentimental. Surely the yellow, then brown, I wish for their plain happiness. And the good they left in place. It must be the sunflower, their stems in van gogh’s vase.