I placed several of the petals
between the pages of
Favorite Love Poems of All Time

To get the pressing affect
I stacked on it Rosen’s
Scientific Explorations: The
World Through a Microscope
One-thousand and eighty pages

Then for more weight I added
Michaelson’s Worlds of Our
Greatest Composers
Eight-hundred and seventy pages
Weight enough I would say

Now I wait seven days
then release the science
and the music to get to
what’s left – the
poems and the petals