SENSORY OVERRIDE

euphoric

springtime had long passed

but had left a messenger in the sticky

sleek remnants of its morning dews

for a girl it had known as summer frost.

careful to only use the tips of her fingers,

she unraveled its soft lily-petal face

with the care of a birthday present; 

leaving the gift wrap untouched

so that she could use it to furnish

a gift of her own; but in her search,

found a smile effusing from

the slender neck of its stem

that she bottled and sold

as a love elegy