Note: The poem is loosely inspired by "Reverse Hanahaki" - a fictional illness from Japanese lore in which a person who does not return someone’s love begins to cough up flower petals. My heart was being ripped wide openseeing you cough flower petalsroses, chrysanthemums, dahliasin stalks, tufts and clusters,larger and wider than before.you looked ghostly… Continue reading Lethal Petals
