Minding The Flowers

Rolling her shoulders forward and gesturing dramatically towards the front porch window, Lily bellows her wish for a hot chocolate party, “in those streets,” on a day where we turn bookcases into snow sleds. Iris wants red roses: “we lay down in the roses and the flowers and we slept in the roses and the flowers, and we had nice dreams.”

The White Fairy says to Iris, “here is the magic to fly everywhere,” and then Lily is caught flying next to a marshmallow cloud! Big sisters require a lot of magic! That’s why the Goddesses of Flower Girls make little sisters so good at sharing. The structure of the human eye is so that the Iris helps light reach the retina. The retina tells the brain what to see. Iris is Goddess of the Rainbow—multicolored circular arc from light and water.

Lily rides her riverboat bed all the way to Princessworld: Land of Only Princesses, on a hot chocolate river. Princessworld has marshmallow skies, strawberry bears, and hair mountains! Lily met a girl there named Rainbow Fruit who has all the fruit in her but she won’t let anyone touch her fruit. “It is so rude,” exclaims Lily, “the world is just one big juicy fruit, after all.”

Dream necklaces and webbed catchers weaving the magenta. How about, I be the oranges and reds and you be everything else?

All the words are funny like, “brrrruuuuuh,” and “ahhh, man!”

And you can.

And you can.

And you can.