 | By Shahidah Adriana I pick flowers in spring periwinkle, iris, jacarandas blooms of spring, dinner table ornaments purple is mother’s favourite colour I press flowers in spring trapped between pages of an encyclopaedia flattened, dehydrated, stiff but still beautiful – just like mother I lost mother in spring rain overflowed from the sky that day so did blood from her wrists I don’t like spring |
Photo by Hanis S.