Saint of Flowers

Hallelujah! The miracle of growth! Petals unfurl, runways that take off to the dark heart of infinite change! Patron saint of feasts and banquets and wet slippery things, chemical-release responses and nerve uptakes, capillary chants and bell shaped cell membrane. Wet pulses underneath your fingertips. A nutrient serum so rich it burns the skin, enzyme death song chant pounding hands against the glass against the vase 80 million tons of seawater. Bird eggs. Muscles contract and shiver ecstasy and glands extrude strands of sticky mucus membrane organelle apotheosis and there in the heart of the flower a single wet hard pearl is found.