These flowers perhaps have been first planted by a woman who lived in the ruins when the ruins were a raw, unpainted house inhabited by herself and a smoky, serious husband and perhaps a pair of silent, serious daughters, and the flowers were an act of resistance against the raw, bare lot. The flowers were may be a balm or if not a balm, some sort of gesture signifying the balm she would be apply were it in her power to offer redress.
Tinkers, Paul Harding
Tinkers
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