May Day Flowers

[butterflydreaming]

Quietly she reads me
So quietly, I can forget,
but constant.
She’s a subtle mystery,
an unexpected promise,
and all I know
is a twenty-degree slice
in a quiet voice
that speaks of herself
rarely.
Hints of complextity,
of something greater
than a reliable reader
An almost-contact,
A note at my door --
Encouraging words
Like May Day flowers
The gentle gift
of her attention.

- - -
Because you said you'd "read every one", and I just noticed that you read this one, too. Because I am always grateful to you.

(Incidently -- on May Day, May 1st, it is an old tradition for people to leave bouquets of spring flowers on a friend's front door, then ring the bell and run away or hide. "Mayday" is also the military distress call.)