ALL SHE EVER WANTED
Was the light of astonishment—
watching a white narcissus bulb
secured in a pot on her old pine desk.
It bloomed like Venus rising from the sea
in front of the morning sun-filled window.
Moment to moment, she monitored
the re-birth of beauty with her every breath,
transfixed in her bones as the flower unfurled
in the mystical grace of that radiant moment.