April 2024

When I Turned Sixty

April 22, 2024by DyAnne Korda

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I asked the artist to sketch the woodland lily

with three solitary petals for my new tattoo—

not loud and cartoon-like, but with reverence,

the way Margaret Roscoe elegantly painted

flowers early in the nineteenth century.

She would understand.

Years ago, when Scott and I traveled north

to begin again—steady but unsure—

I walked forests just beyond the kitchen door

and fondly remember the first morning

Trillium whispered,

Look here. See me? You’re home.