After the Diagnosis

I stopped planting annuals—no more petunias

or geraniums or zinnias I longed to have come back

without my bidding. I planted Lenten roses, daffodils,

daylilies whose color I forgot so they would surprise me in summer:

orange persimmon, showlight, mystic amulet, wispy morn.

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