Mama’s Orchid girl, just look at that flower all green and yellow swimming together spilling over the edge like rainbow sherbet mama made in july and spooned into glass cups that slipped from our sticky hands crashing on the black and white linoleum she laid when too old to bear children. just look at those petals fringed in lavender a feather boa she tossed over her shoulder cascading down a satin back saturday nights as daddy dipped her to radio blues with us praying for long legs and to stay up past nine when ella and billie brought it on home. never cared for real orchids those hothouse types too busy being fussed over still don't bloom like that purple flower mama loved to wear on her birthday and afterward stored it in the icebox till petals turned brown. Chella Courington Chella Courington is a writer and teacher whose poetry and fiction appear in numerous anthologies and journals including Spillway, Los Angeles Review, and Lavender Review. Her flash novella, Adele and Tom: The Portrait of a Marriage (Breaking Rules Publishing), was published in February. Originally from the Appalachian South, Courington lives in California.
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Ted Chiles
8/23/2020 01:43:17 am
Love the vivid details & rhythm
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