Art Flowers

By Niall Twohig

Art flowers –

It is not the product of an artist in isolation.

It is shaped by the soil from which the artist grows,

by the weather, the motion, the commotion of the times,

by the artist’s roots that charge her with energy,

by an old code encoded deep in every fibre

that knows how to grow to

that moment

when, ripened by conditions,

atoms come together, collect,

on the point of a pen,

on the tip of a tongue,

at the point of a pick,

to form a flower

that alters the very landscape

from which it was born.

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