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Poetry | December 2005

Three Orange Nasturtiums

By Britt Kaufmann

Three orange nasturtiums in an almost-
three-year-old’s small fist.

They were not picked from my flower beds,
as I have mantra-ed ad nauseum at her,
but from her own pot on the porch
where she may pick as she pleases.

I had assumed after two baths already today,
she’d been making mud soup again

out there, while I tried to wrestle diapers
on the babes — twin crawlers, who
have all the makings of streakers.

When I’d managed a split-decision victory,
I stayed down on the floor, beaten
by the day.

                     Head cocked to the side, she
presents them to me:
“I picked these for my precious mother.”

I rise then, try to find a vase perfect enough.

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