They hate blossoms this year.
Each new bloom is squashed goo
Between the skin of prim fingers,
Calloused and ashy, sickly yellow.
All the pressed flowers are expelled
From the walls of the library:
Their glass frames shatter and these
Pale, dried ancestors do not cry out
As they fall away in flakes, into nothingness,
Yellow and blue and green
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