YOUR FLOWER

Updated: Jun 27

By: Gracie Jones

he picks you from the field

grips you in his hand

and stares at your

top-heavy shape and yellow colour

bringing you closer

so you inhale his air

he shoves ash down your throat

poisoning your stem

stealing your breath

he takes your flower

and chops off your head

strikes it with his match

and adds it to the dust of other

daisies, buttercups, tulips

that he burned earlier.

Gracie Jones is a writer and poet from Gloucestershire, England. She has recently

completed her BA Creative Writing Degree at the University of Gloucestershire and has had multiple poems published.

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