DCFA Tulip Blossom Abstract Photographic Print

Wild Tulip offers high quality, limited edition photographic prints on Hahnemuhle Pearl paper, complete with digital signature and Certificate of Authenticity. These images include curated nature photographs from the South Western Virginia Blue Ridge and digital photographs of local blossoms, enhancing any home decor with a beautiful, rich color palette.

Not the yellow fever

in your imperial dreams of exotic flowers on foreign shores.
I worked in a sushi bar, in America
and posed for pictures with sailors.
My sushi chef with an expired tourist visa had not been home in seven years.
Returning to one home meant never returning to another.
He fit the kimono on me,
until breathing and walking were difficult,
and shyly said it was sexy.
But real American girls are not trained to walk that way.

I was never a smooth butter yellow confection; checking all the form-fitting boxes on the American girl roster; she.
Nor could I be Cinderella’s pink. Trussed for a ball I always felt
like a drag Queen,
certain someone would see
the combat boots overwhelming my feet.

Absurdly pretending the history
of my face was not plain.
Colored green and gold or yellow
depending upon
your temperature, temper, or age.

Inside and out I run; all the colors of a gas flame, cooking hot cerulean to saturated cadmiums: yellow, orange, and red.

My external patina burns cooler now, my sweetness caramelized, with age.
I recognize myself, enveloped in patterns pushed to excess,
an abundance of turning petals
swirling in an ever-evolving geometry.

Not an imported ornament for anyone’s tree. This beautiful definition,
yes,
this is me.

Pseudo Pompous

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