Ari

by Kristen Spexarth

A beautiful flower
simply needs
no embellishment
but today
I saw light streaming
as if the sun
illuminating petals from behind
shown through your eyes.

Radiance so clear
transparency so pure
a gift of love so large
tears came into mine.

Kristen Spexarth is a Seattle-based poet who makes her living as a gardener. She has published a book of poems, Passing Reflections that chronicles her life over the year following the suicide of her eldest son. Kristen volunteers with Hospice and The American Association of Suicidology for whom she recently led a session for survivors on healing through the written word.
e-mail: kspexarth@comcast.net
web-page: www.passingreflections.com