eau de nil

a while ago
i saw this flower project on the net
so we spent the afternoon picking wild + cultivated flowers 
from our garden, then the street

but like me she was drawn to the dry grasses

my reluctant model

with a chocolate mouth

and a toothless gap (already!)

i want to remember her

kicking off her wellies and lying back on the bench

by the defunct railway line

her eyes scanning the vast blue 

and her surprise that there wasn't a single cloud in the sky

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