I didn't even know
it made flowers
when first I saw
it bloom.
It was just
blind luck that
I found it,
in a pile of garbage
most people
walking straight by.
On an overcast
morning, after
walking the dogs,
and coffee
with Merry,
I stepped out
under wide-armed
Live Oaks and
into a South Austin
warm breeze,
I saw the beauty
of what it had become
and I thought,
I didn't even know
it made flowers.