room for roots to grow (thrive)

accompaniment: yann tiersen
company: a florist

walking through the gardens at the rond point des champs elysees, holding hands on the way to monmartre. he pulls the most ordinary looking of green leaves from a verdant bush & crinkles it underneath my nose: it smells like warm summer oranges. reaching ahead, he plucks a small bunch of miniature, fine pink flowers, so small they look like the effulgent beginnings of blossoming buds but are already in full bloom in this mild paris january. "tiens," he says, "des chevre-feuilles pour toi."