hibiscus raze i've watched the wild ones devour your flesh. i've seen you bloom and retreat back into yourself. i carry your names with me like matches i strike against my skin to feel a flame's first flush. muenchhusia moscheutos. hairy-fruited hibiscus. wooly rose-mallow. i creep through uncut grass in crumbling slippers and soak my socks to photograph your rain-stained face, knowing it will be dormant by daybreak. i count forty scarlet veins where a mouth might have been. so many blood_red streaks of sun. you are a lesson i've learned and go on learning: nothing lasts as long as it should. 261013 what's it to you? who go blather from