Melinda J. Irvine

Splashed with red flowers

Kid’s water park —
excited shrieks
wet selfies.
little red flowers with white buds

Mom! You have little red flowers on you’ cried my animate 11-year-old as we were leaving a kid’s waterpark yesterday. Underneath the steps of a shrieking watercoaster was a garden of red blossoms — their tiny buds carried to the furthest park perimeter (including my shoulders).

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