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i. TULIPS

TULIPS

she hides, amongst the petals that once were a declaration of love and now a sanctuary in which she succumbs to ennui.

they say that florets burgeoned from the tears trickling between the gaps of her interlaced fingers that pooled in the crevices of the earth.

they say, in that blushing field, that she searches for the one who promised her tulips but instead adorned her with carnations -- her perennial sadness in love. 

but unbeknownst to those who say, she does not search for him, but for the pieces of her he has left scattered behind.