A broken tulip by Maaike

A broken tulip by Maaike

No apologies.

Poem for the early mornings.

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Maaike VanderMeer
Aug 14, 2025
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This morning I stepped out the door
stained by sleep and heard 
a hummingbird, asking – 

her wings in the barely born sun 
were the gentlest form of wrestling. 
How many lives has she saved?

I do not know my way forward, or back,
or how to move in air and stay upright. 
Twenty-one crested cranes flew west past my door

a thunder of beauty cracking ope…
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