unfurl–
lift yourself to the sun’s stunning rays
with all the dazzling hopes and gauzy dreams
set before you on these beautiful, ordinary days

Smooth Ella Fitzgerald,
and classic Doobie Brothers,
clay beads and wooden beads
and bright brass beads,
old postcards, antique shops and small flower shops,
tuna steaks and asparagus with cheese
and churros with sugar and sweet, strong coffee,
marigolds and long yellow petals and tiny baby’s breath
and small pine cones that trail blue feathers

your thorns only add to your beauty