“Flowers” from “Remembering Eternity”
“The profusion of shapes, textures, and colors of flowers stunned the observer’s senses. The perfumes floating on the breeze, ranging from light and sweet to dense and rich, caused him to momentarily fall in love with life. The grounds might have been a many-acred maternity ward: new life cried forth from swards, walls, trees, bushes, and gardens. Insects came to life. Birds rushed about nervously as if they had woken late on a particularly important day. A great though invisible, intense and powerful energy rose up from the earth, wafted out from the flowers and trees, and sifted down from the sun and sky. The laboratory of nature used every bit of available current to heat, catalyze, sublimate, distill, and incubate her myriad life forms so that, in a short amount of time, they should burst forth into the warm embrace of the sun.”
