“To see a world in a grain of sand

and a heaven in a wild flower

hold infinity in the palm of your hand

and eternity in an hour.”

-William Blake

“Rose, you majestic one,

you inexhaustible one,

you who contain the infinite in your smallness.”

-Rainer Maria Rikke

You emerge from shadow

without apology,

a velvet whisper of mystery

unfurling in silence.

Exotic, untouchable,

yet impossibly tender-

each delicate fold

a secret revealed only to those who know how to wait.

you embody quiet resilience,

how to bloom in the strangest places, how beauty can be both fragile

and fiercely alive.

In your quiet extravagance

I see the divine in every hue, the rarest kind of courage-

to be exquisite

without needing to be understood.

Velvet Secrets in fuchsia light and golden fire