The Bud,
stands for all things
even those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing it’s loveliness,
to put a hand on the brow
of the flower,
and retell it in words and in touch,
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self blessing…
~ Extract from Galway Kinnell’s ‘St. Francis and the Sow’