Freshen the Flowers, She Said

Mary Oliver

So I put them in the sink, for the cool porcelain

    was tender,

and took out the tattered and cut each stem

   on a slant,

trimmed the black and raggy leaves, and set them all--

    roses, delphiniums, daisies, iris, lilies,

and more whose names I don't know, in bright new water--

    gave them

a bounce upward at the end to let them take

   their own choice of position, the wheels, the spurs,

the little sheds of the buds. It took, to do this,

    perhaps fifteen minutes.

Fifteen minutes of music

    with nothing playing.

(from WHY I WAKE UP EARLY)

 這首詩深得我心。

很喜歡在市場隨意買幾朵花

回家稍微修剪 (剪斜斜的)

然後隨意往瓶裡插

讓花朵各安其所。

最喜歡這首詩的最後兩句:

插花的這15分鐘是一首歌，

一首無言歌。