Dried Etched Flowers Verse
The growth season has rendered harvest
Maamawi’ Maamawi’
Not just for birth:
birthday, congratulation,
express love, wedding,
to wish well, death.
Well wishes granted, cheat the cycle.
In cherished praises of living.
Dried Etched Flowers attached to parchment
Waabigwan, Waabigwaniikaa
In Gashkadino-giizis
Grandma’s traditional art expression.
Family's past connects melting kettle.
Regions voyaged with dried etched flowers.
Growth still renders cherished dried harvest.
Grandma’s heritage is etched in her migrant soul.
Lineage ties generations of dried etched flower artistry.
A special thanks to Plant Club for assisting in planting the “Graduation” bulbs in the Trio Somer’s flower bed, emblematic of Work in Progress.