Each week walking home from work i pick my mother a bunch of daffodils
wrenched roots from the roadside
And each week she congratulates me on my killing.
She proudly parades my grotesque trophy, sunshine nodding corpses, in a vase
like stag antlers nailed to a mahogany board
And not once does she say
“Stop!
Let them grow.”
She teaches me that death is okay if it’s beautiful.